In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.