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"When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."

"I attended a symposium to hear Shilagh Mirgain, Ph.D. speak on Mindful Leadership. Throughout her program, I made sure to make eye contact and smile to support, affirm, and engage with her presentation. When audience members do this for me, it adds an extra punch of dynamic energy that enriches my presentations and improves my performance."

"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform."

"If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play."

"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
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"What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done."


"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off."


"My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians."


"I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools."


"I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago."


"I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer."


"One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music."


"When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows."
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