Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.