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• I am famous, but I am not well known.

• Perfection itself is imperfection.

• It's better to make your own mistakes than to copy someone else's.

• My future is in my past and my past is in my present. I must now make the present my future.

• When I am on the stage, I'm a king. No one can interfere with me because I have something to do, and it has to be the best which is within me.

• I'm a general. My soldiers are the keys, and I have to command them.

• My face is my passport.

• The piano is an orchestra with 88 ... things, you know.

• There are only three kinds of pianists; Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.

• If I don't practice for a day, I know it. If I don't practice for two days, my wife knows it. If I don't practice for three days, the world knows it