If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

Perfection itself is imperfection.

There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

My face is my passport.

Cut your goals into tiny units of work and think only about one unit at a time.

Enchanted islands are hard to understand, ' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.

...[O]ne of the first things a Magnolia League debutante learns: Keep your thoughts and opinions to yourself.

Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

I don't just talk about change. I actually have a plan to execute change and make it happen.

I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why.