False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

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.

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

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

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