The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

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.

I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

To retire is the beginning of death.

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.