I feel I shall live a long time.

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

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.

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.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

The muse doesn't come without being called.