Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

Perfection itself is imperfection.

There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

My face is my passport.

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood. . . .

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.