The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach. I really can’t think of any other music which is so all-encompassing, which moves me so deeply and so consistently, and which, to use a rather imprecise word, is valuable beyond all of its skill and brilliance for something more meaningful than that — its humanity.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.