I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.