Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.

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

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

It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though to tear himself forcibly away from his dream.

"We liked it" or "I didn't like it" people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!

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.

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