Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

The very essence of success is practice.

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny.

True joy does not discount real suffering

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.