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When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation.

You can learn and enrich yourself through the process of knowing a different musical culture.

I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video.

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.

Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.

Over 100,000 people attend my shows each season and no one can say they haven't heard the Gospel.

People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

If you remove tone from music, you have something, but what? I find it difficult to call it music.

Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.

Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.

I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

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

Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation.

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be

You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

Every nation, every human being that came across earth had a song and sang in some way to their God.

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