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.

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.

All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

You don't mince words.""Just garlic.

Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save oh save me from the candid friend!

General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.

In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.

It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

Strange with women when They find out you love men More than they Never let you kiss them On the mouth again.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

I should've blown more stuff up." -Coach Gleeson Hedge