Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.