Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

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

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

Music is the only art that actually lives.

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.