To live is not enough; we must take part.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.
For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.