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

Music is the only art that actually lives.

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

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

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

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.