Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.