One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.