"Et quand divinement ta voix m’enchaine Je vois s’évanouir tout ma peine Et tout ton être chante et vive en moi."

"I do not believe that the few women who have achieved greatness in creative work are the exception, but I think that …"

"Marriage must adapt itself to one's career. With a man, it is all arranged and expected. If the woman is the artist, …"

"It is not a young girl who composes, this is a composer"

"Her music has a certain feminine daintiness and grace, but it is amazingly superficial and wanting in variety. But on…"

"Anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life. I'd go so far as to say life is den…"

"This Poulenc recital was extremely interesting, in terms of both the choice of works and the high standard of the per…"

"There was something volcanic about Hambourg's style. With complete disdain for anything so prosaic as technical accur…"

"Here lies Evgeny Kissin, son of the Jewish people, a servant of music."

"I think that with the death of Schumann and Chopin—‘finis musicae'.'’"