To Compose Is To Remember Music That

Let Your Intimate Friends Be Chosen From Such As Are Better Informed Than Yourself.

When You Play, Never Mind Who Listens To You.

Talent Works, Genius Creates.

Think It A Vile Habit To Alter Works Of Good Composers, To Omit Parts Of Them, Or To Insert New-fashioned Ornaments. This Is The Greatest Insult You Can Offer To Art.

Only When The Form Grows Clear To You, Will The Spirit Become So Too.