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

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

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

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

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

Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.