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.

I feel I shall live a long time.

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.

Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.

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

When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity