From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

Wherever you are, I am there also.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.