Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

In fear, we expect; with love, we accept.

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

Without strength can we work?

HAPPINESS comes from within. To be happy is to know oneself. It's not in the material things that we own, it's the love we have and show to the world.

What lies beneath this envelope of flesh and blood, hmm? Is it something special? Perhaps, when I peel it open, I will be able to see. Perhaps your screams will tell me everything I need to know.

But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.

Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.

Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.

I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.

The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.