America, the country of my heart, my second home.

If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.

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

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

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

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

I loved your country [America] before I knew it.