The body is a rock; the arms are snakes
When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for.
I think it's beautiful to practice. I love to practice.
Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.
An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.
I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.