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

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

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.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

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

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.

Music is the only art that actually lives.