Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

Bach is Bach just as God is God.

It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love