I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

Abhijit Naskar is a self-trained scientist and thinker who discovers the paradigm shifting phenomena of the human mind.

Nothing in her world aligns to the surreality of her dreams. She can feel his presence, his warmth, his depth of intent pressing against her.

If you know who you are, then it will not be difficult for you to stand your ground and on your convictions.

The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.

She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

Once the Champions Tour got in me and got a hold of me, I found out how great this Tour is and how much I enjoy it.

I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you behave like a human being — I will love you no matter.

Life can be absoletely phenomenal, and it should be.

There's nothing about me that's selfish.