One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.