It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

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

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

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