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

I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform it differently, to establish the music's difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.

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

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

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.

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.