'Every composer should be able to play his own compositions at the piano.'

'What you have in your head, put it down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.'

'I shall never forget that event - a boy was brutally killed by a Cossack with his sabre.'

'I write music, it's performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn't need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music…

The sonatas of Mozart are unique: too easy for children, too difficult for adults. Children are given Mozart to play because of the quantity of notes; grown-up…

If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it.

I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to b…