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

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.

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!

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

Fear gives people their humanity. Fear of loss.

You are a true success if you can trust yourself, love yourself, and be yourself.

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.

To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.

The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.