Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.