Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.
Art must be a slow and normal evolution.
The very essence of success is practice.
The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.
Fatherland before everything, art afterward.
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?