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.

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

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

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!

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

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.

They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me.