Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
I loved your country [America] before I knew it.
Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.
Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.
There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.