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

To retire is the beginning of death.

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 do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

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

If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.