One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.
I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.
When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for.
The body is a rock; the arms are snakes
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.
I'm walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.
The problem with Indians is that we have lost the habit of thinking big!
I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one [film], because certainly there was all that fundamentalist guilt that came pouring back in.