To Play Without Passion Is Inexcusable!

What You Are, You Are By Accident Of Birth; What I Am, I Am By Myself. There Are And Will Be A Thousand Princes; There Is Only One Beethoven.

I Carry My Thoughts About Me For A Long Time, Often A Very Long Time, Before I Write Them Down; Meanwhile My Memory Is So Faithful That I Am Sure Never To Forget, Not Even In Years, A Theme That Has Once Occurred To Me.

We All Make Mistakes, But Everyone Makes Different Mistakes

Don't Regard Yourself As Too Divine To Improve, Occasionally, Your Own Works.

I Will Seize Fate By The Throat; It Shall Certainly Never Wholly Overcome Me.