England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

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!

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

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

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.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.