The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.

The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.

My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.

I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.

The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow!