The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.

I don't have hobbies. I have passions.

Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.

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.

I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.