I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.
There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.
When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people. . . to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
Picture your grandmother in Hell, baking pies. . . without an oven.
If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.
I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.