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

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

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

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

I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.

I practice in my head.

Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.