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.

When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.

Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

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.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

Music is the only art that actually lives.