Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into the school to date that the quality of music has necessarily declined and deteriorated. And those who do bring a few precepts with them when they come to school are not ready to be used immediately.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.