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

The very essence of success is practice.

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.

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

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.