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

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.

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

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