Simplicity is the final achievement.

Simplicity is the final achievement.

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

Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.

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