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Without Enthusiasm Nothing Great Can Be Effected In Art.

You Will Be Most Readily Cured Of Vanity Or Presumption By Studying The History Of Music, And By Hearing The Master Pieces Which Have Been Produced At Different Periods.

I Am So Fresh In Soul And Spirit That Life Gushes And Bubbles Around Me In A Thousand Springs.

You Write To Become Immortal, Or Because The Piano Happens To Be Open, Or You've Looked Into A Pair Of Beautiful Eyes.

Believe Me, Were I Ever To Accomplish Anything, It Would Be In Music, Which Has Always Attracted Me; And, Without Overestimating Myself, I Am Conscious Of Possessing A Certain Creative Faculty.