It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.