You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.