The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

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

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.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

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

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