Every note is a lifetime for itself.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.

My point of view is very simple. I think war is no option. Trying to play the same note at the same time, with the same loudness, with the same color, with the same amount of joy, everything the same ... this is a fantastic affair.

Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.