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.

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.

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

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

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

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.