Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.

Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.

I have learned that all you give is all you get, so give it all you got.

Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.

There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.

It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.