I usually only play with very close friends.

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!

olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for its nest.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . .

Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.

Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

No touching... Cashmere is highly sensitive to the oil in poor people's fingers.

The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.

To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.