Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I heard yesterday, somebody came and said ' I saw you concert' Can we change the usage of, of this phrase please? And I hope that some of the people in our concert tonight will listen and even hear what we are doing!