The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.

- Wanda Landowska

Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret tech…

- Wanda Landowska

You play Bach your way, and I’ll play him his way.

- Wanda Landowska

I never practice; I always play.

- Wanda Landowska

I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one en…

- Wanda Landowska

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discove…

- Wanda Landowska

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate…

- Wanda Landowska

Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and the…

- Wanda Landowska

The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils them. They are clear, transparent…

- Wanda Landowska