Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

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.

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

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

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 truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.