As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

Music will save the world.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

I don't have hobbies. I have passions.