I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?