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

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

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

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.

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

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.