We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

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.

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!

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

Only dead surpasses the sufferings

Being born-again Christian gives God the opportunity to gradually change your heart, mind, and thoughts

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.

In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

Full of wise saws and modern instances.