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.

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.