Here, whatever is not boring is not English.

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

Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous and played as I play when I am alone. It went well... and I had to come back and bow four times.

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Simplicity is the final achievement.

All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.