Music will save the world.

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

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

To retire is to begin to die.

To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be a musician is a gift - a gift from Nature. There is no great merit in us except in loving this gift with respect and devotion and doing everything possible to honor that gift by work and more work. We must work with conviction and humility, searching for beauty, simplicity, and the Truth. And it is for us musicians to do all in our power for a better world. Music must carry the message of beauty, of love and of peace.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

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