Talent works, genius creates.

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.