When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for.

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

I think it's beautiful to practice. I love to practice.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

The body is a rock; the arms are snakes

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated.

For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.

Success doesn't sneak up on us; it starts as a dream that we combine with a clear plan of action.

We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

Satan has many helpers.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

How old are you?" asked Door. Richard was pleased she had asked; he would never have dared. "As old as my tongue," said Hunter, primly, "and a little older than my teeth.