Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.
The most stupendous miracle in all music.
My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
A Composition on the Piano
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.
You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.