Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.
Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.
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.
I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.