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

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

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

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

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.