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

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.

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

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

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.

Perfection itself is imperfection.