The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.
Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.
Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.
I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.
We should welcome applause whenever it comes.
I usually only play with very close friends.
The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention
But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.