The Principal Mark Of Genius Is Not

You Should Diligently Play Scales And Fingerpractices. There Are Many, However, Who Believe They'll Achieve All, By Practicing Daily On Technique For Hours On End, Up Till High Age. It's Like Practicing Every Day To Enumerate The Alfabet Faster And Faster. One Would Think One Could Make Better Use Of Their Valuable Time.

Remember, There Are More People In The World Than Yourself. Be Modest! You Have Not Yet Invented Nor Thought Anything Which Others Have Not Thought Or Invented Before. And Should You Really Have Done So, Consider It A Gift Of Heaven Which You Are To Share With Others.

My Heart Pounds Sickeningly And I Turn Pale... I Often Feel As If I Were Dead... I Seem To Be Losing My Mind.

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.

Does It Not Seem As If Mozart's Works Become Fresher And Fresher The Oftener We Hear Them?