If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

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!

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.

It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.

Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.

It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.

The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.

In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.