Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

Perfection itself is imperfection.

I may play the same program from one recital to the next, but I will play it differently, and because it is always different, it is always new.

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermysterious. Everything is super; it is all a little overboard. Anyway, my parents were pleased that I played for him.