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

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.

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

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

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

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.