Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.