I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.