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I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
I find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody.
Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.
I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.
When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.
John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
It used to bother me when people called me a pussy. But the joke's on them - after all, you are what you eat!
My big problem is that I don't promote my electronic music very much because it makes my 'normal' fans angry!
I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.
I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.
I can't really say that film music inspired me; it is more the films themselves, in connection with the music.
Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.
The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.
Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.
It is important that we understand the importance of the Arctic, stop the process of destruction, and protect it.
I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.
I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.
If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
People always talk about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, but I like his melodies. They are very defined and original.
And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.
I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.
On every new project, I try to write in a different way and see if there's a new side of myself I haven't explored.
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.
Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.
I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.
I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.
I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.
I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.
Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.