Music - So Different From Painting -

You Should Diligently Play Scales And Fingerpractices. There Are Many, However, Who Believe They'll Achieve All, By Practicing Daily On Technique For Hours On End, Up Till High Age. It's Like Practicing Every Day To Enumerate The Alfabet Faster And Faster. One Would Think One Could Make Better Use Of Their Valuable Time.

Music Induces Nightingales To Sing, Pug Dogs To Yelp.

We Have Learned To Express The More Delicate Nuances Of Feeling By Penetrating More Deeply Into The Mysteries Of Harmony.

An Evil Fate Has Deprived Me Of The Full Use Of My Right Hand, So That I Am Not Able To Play My Compositions As I Feel Them. The Trouble With My Hand Is That Certain Fingers Have Become So Weak, Probably Through Writing And Playing Too Much At One Time, That I Can Hardly Use Them.

Only When The Form Grows Clear To You, Will The Spirit Become So Too.