Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

My face is my passport.

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.