Play always as if in the presence of a master.

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.

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

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

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

I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

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