You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.