The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

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.

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

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

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

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