To retire is the beginning of death.
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?