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.
Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.
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.
Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.