"We liked it" or "I didn't like it" people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.

Talent works, genius creates.

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

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

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.

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