You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

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.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

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.

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.