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

Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

Music is the only art that actually lives.

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

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

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

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