Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

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

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.