If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.