Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people.

When you give decision that the guilty is not guilty, only then will the guilty become not guilty.

Eating cholesterol and bad fat will contribute to heart disease if and only if you bathe them in a massive lifelong overdose of insulin and glucose.

if you care, let those people knowif you don't, then make sure those people know.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

Music is my life, is my strong point, that's my love.

There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments.

We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do.