Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

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.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

To retire is the beginning of death.

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.