The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

Music is the only art that actually lives.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

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.

It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.