Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.
It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.
Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.
Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
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.
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.