I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!
Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.
Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.
Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.
He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.