Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

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.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

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

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living forces of our heart. It is easier to define its peculiarities and its details than to draw out of it its emotion, its thought.