The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

I'm afraid our sun is nothing like whatever defined.

But we have seen how brightly light shines in the dark, how sweetly music fills the quiet. All these years you have known only shadow and silence, and we have so much to show you. To sav

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life.

God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.

They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.