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.

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

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

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

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.

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.