You Practice And You Get

I Find That People Can’t Find You. It’s Kind Of Quiet. When I Go To A City, I Can Almost Always Get A Piano If I Need One. So There’s Something Nice About Being On The Road And Focusing On Something You Want To Do.

I Shift Between Mediums Very Frequently. Instead Of Taking A Break From Writing, I Just Write In A Different Medium Or In A Different Way Or For A Different Purpose, So That I Don't Actually Stop Writing - I Just Go To Something Else. Like Going From A Big Symphony To A Piano Piece Is Great And Very Refreshing, I Find. And Then Going From That To A Big Concerto, And Then Having To Go Out And Play.

The Problem With Listening, Of Course, Is That We Don't. There's Too Much Noise Going On In Our Heads, So We Never Hear Anything. The Inner Conversation Simply Never Stops. It Can Be Our Voice Or Whatever Voices We Want To Supply, But It's A Constant Racket. In The Same Way We Don't See, And In The Same Way We Don't Feel, We Don't Touch, We Don't Taste.

I Consider The First 20 Performances Just Learning The Piece. Think About It This Way: If You Think About A Pianist Who Plays A Schubert Sonata Through His Whole Lifetime - If You Listen To Rubenstein Or Horowitz Playing Their Repertoire Later In Their Life, You Understand The Richness With Which They Play That Music, And How Differently They Must Have Played It When They Were Younger.

I Like The Idea That [mahatma] Gandhi Is Appearing Now In An Opera Hall In All These Different Places, And People Kind Of Think About It Again.