To master the piano is to master the universe.

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations.

Don’t try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead.

Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

Dear Lord. I give myself away. I've nothing else to give.

The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.

I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.

As a young man, you get to a point in your life where you feel like you have grown up and have to make decisions and not having that father figure in your life to guide you to making those decisions.

Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" "Sure, if I was ever good.