Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.