If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.