We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

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.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

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

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.