Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Sometimes I observe with curiosity that uninterrupted activity which, independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on, continues its course in that department of my brain that is devoted to music.

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.