"My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay."
"The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants."
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Source: Life and Liszt: The Recollections of a Concert Pianist by Arthur Friedheim, Courier Dover Publications, (p. 270), June 13, 2013.
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