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If We Were All Determined To Play The First Violin We Should Never Have An Ensemble. Therefore, Respect Every Musician In His Proper Place.

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

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

Music Induces Nightingales To Sing, Pug Dogs To Yelp.

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.