I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

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

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

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

Music is the only art that actually lives.

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