The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be a musician is a gift - a gift from Nature. There is no great merit in us except in loving this gift with respect and devotion and doing everything possible to honor that gift by work and more work. We must work with conviction and humility, searching for beauty, simplicity, and the Truth. And it is for us musicians to do all in our power for a better world. Music must carry the message of beauty, of love and of peace.

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.

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.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.