My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

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.

When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.