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

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

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

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

The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.