When You Play, Do Not Trouble Yourself

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

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.

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

Believe Me, Were I Ever To Accomplish Anything, It Would Be In Music, Which Has Always Attracted Me; And, Without Overestimating Myself, I Am Conscious Of Possessing A Certain Creative Faculty.

To Compose Is To Remember Music That Has Never Been Written.