The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
Fatherland before everything, art afterward.
I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.
If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.
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.