Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.