'I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.'

'Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse - though it isn't.'

'A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.'

'If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling. Corrupt successes, disgrace…

Music isn't enough. Performers aren't enough. There must be someone that loves music as much as life. For you, and remember this always, those of us with somet…

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

'I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, alth…