Music is the only art that actually lives.
The very essence of success is practice.
America, the country of my heart, my second home.
I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.