We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth forced us to a confession, requiring no words whatever, or the incommensurable misfortune that weighed upon us. With tears and sobs we sealed a vow to belong to each other alone.

One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

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

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.