The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.
Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.
Say things to the world that are true.
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.