There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

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.

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

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.

In fear, we expect; with love, we accept.

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