For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscientiously. While for the public, he'll show himself audacious, yes even into cheerful boldness. And so a new public's darling has arisen.

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.

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