You Cannot Imagine How It Spoils One

We Need Improvement In The Style Of Performance. There Is No More Advantage In A Musician Who Plays And Conducts Than In One Who Is Only A Beater Of Rhythm.

My Mind And Fingers Have Worked Like The Damned. Homer, The Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber Are All Around Me. I Study Them. I Devour Them With Fury.

The Music Of The Gypsies Belongs In The Sphere Of Improvisation Rather Than In Any Other, Without Which It Would Have No Power To Exist.

A Person Of Any Mental Quality Has Ideas Of His Own. This Is Common Sense.

It Is My Fervent Wish And My Greatest Ambition To Leave A Work With A Few Useful Instructions For The Pianists After Me.