You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

I know what it is to have nothing and plenty.Always count your blessing and be grateful.

This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

It's hard to be a saint in the city.

I wanted to go to the end of photography.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?

Pay no attention to the less courageous.

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.