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.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

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

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

That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.

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

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