Quotes

Death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence.

Music is my life and my life is music.

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid.

When I am completely myself... it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Melody is the essence of music.

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.