When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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.
To retire is the beginning of death.
I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.