This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

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

Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

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