Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

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.

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.