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

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.

If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

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

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.

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