It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.
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.
The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.
Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.
Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?