Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.

...people with nothing to declare carry the most.

Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.

God's solution is a prayer away!

I expect I shall feel better after tea.

I don't really like doing interviews.