[Bach is the] reason I became a musician
I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.
There is a craft and a power in listening.
Mozart died too late rather than too soon.
I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform it differently, to establish the music's difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.
The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.