If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

I feel that you always pay when you are a child.

Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find.

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.