The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.

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 is the expression of the immortal part of man.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

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.