Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.
Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.
I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.
We should welcome applause whenever it comes.
I usually only play with very close friends.
It could be anything, give a homeless guy a sandwich, help an old lady across the street like anything to make this world a better place. If everybody just did one good thing for another person like a selfless good deed just think about how much a better place this would be.
Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence. . . Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion. . . well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.
I wanted to start a menswear line of slim-fitting, luxury cashmere jumpers in a range of great colors. I know these jumpers will become season-less staples in my own wardrobe. Cashmere and silk printed scarves and hand-beaded T-shirts compliment the line and form a solid foundation for the collection to grow next season.