Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

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

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

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?

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