I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

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.

You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

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

Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.