Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

I don't have hobbies. I have passions.

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.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

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