Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable - and I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

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

Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable - and I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

Practice in tranquility.

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

Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.