How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--alone, waiting for the things that stay.

I didn't ask to be born!""No, but I asked." He was breathing hard. His eyes hard and glinting with a fire that burned straight through me. "I asked for you every day of my life!

I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

I hate when people are chomping their gum, even though I do it. I hate that.

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

I am different, not less