Mendelssohn I Consider The First Musician Of

When You Play, Do Not Trouble Yourself As To Who Is Listening. Yet Always Play As Though A Master Listened To You.

Music - So Different From Painting - Is The Art Which We Enjoy Most In Company With Others. A Symphony, Presented In A Room With One Other Listener, Would Please Him But Little.

Endeavour To Play Easy Pieces Well And With Elegance; That Is Better Than To Play Difficult Pieces Badly.

An Evil Fate Has Deprived Me Of The Full Use Of My Right Hand, So That I Am Not Able To Play My Compositions As I Feel Them. The Trouble With My Hand Is That Certain Fingers Have Become So Weak, Probably Through Writing And Playing Too Much At One Time, That I Can Hardly Use Them.

To Send Light Into The Darkness Of Men's Hearts - Such Is The Duty Of The Artist.