I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitte….

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty..

America, the country of my heart, my second home..

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings..

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spir….

Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nati….

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it..

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual..

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man..

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking..

Art must be a slow and normal evolution..

It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to at….

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies f….

Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to i….

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that m….

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured th….

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends..

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless..

Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation..

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy..

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all..