Always Quote by Vladimir Horowitz

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an…

— Bryn Terfel

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano,…

— George Shearing

Music has to be treated in the same way as set design, casting, or choice of location - it has to start at the…

— Johann Johannsson

I try to change my concert program every couple of years - hopefully to keep my listeners interested.

— Henry Mancini

I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material…

— George Duke

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

— Gerry Mulligan

When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find…

— Lynn Nottage

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

— Alice Cooper

It's no good to do a piece once and then move on because it doesn't have time to develop. I try to play seven…

— Hilary Hahn

It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience…

— Andrew Hill

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

— Kerry King

Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may…

— Leo Ornstein