Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.

Music is the only art that actually lives.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.