It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

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!

I trust in God. He is my provider, refuge, and shelter.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

Whoever falls from God's right hand is caught into His left.

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

Love is the smallest part of gallantry.

A bevy of fair women.

I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.