If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

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

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

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

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.

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

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.