I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

In fear, we expect; with love, we accept.

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

You spoke to Nicodemus?' Vivian asked.[Francesca] 'We did.'V: 'And he trusts you?'F: 'As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets.

The thing about past love is that they exist, only in your fantasy as a fantasy.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.

Listen, then make up your own mind.

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.