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

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

Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

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.

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.