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I practice in my head.
Practice in tranquility.
Everybody makes his path differently.
When a piece gets difficult, make faces.
Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.
I usually only play with very close friends.
We should welcome applause whenever it comes.
To master the piano is to master the universe.
Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.
A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.
Music is a right, but only for those who deserve it!
Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.
I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.
It is not music's function to express rational necessities.
The only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is You.
The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
Bad music disturbs me, but wonderful music disturbs me even more.
I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.
Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.
I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.
I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.
I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.
Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.
Great music has layers of things to discover. I try to do so every night.
Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.
All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.
Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.
I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.
We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.
Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.
Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.
I am the only person here who is enjoying this, and I get the money; they pay and have to suffer.
Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.
My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.
If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.
If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.
I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.
The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.
Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.
Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.
Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.
Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.
I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.