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

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.

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

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

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.

The present moment is the combination of future and past...so let's live and sometimes, sometimes let's just forget about the rest!

Age wrinkles the body

The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

Rise up and become the person you were meant to be.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

I'm not a separatist, I'm friends with some people who voted for Trump, not many. Nobody has the nerve to tell me, but a few have.

Play is the work of the child.

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.