Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.
You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.