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 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.

When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.

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.

Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.