If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

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.

Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.

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

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