Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

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

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.

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.

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.