The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.

To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul and conscience, and the discovery of new fields of experience.

There are no rules in the service of God, and this itself is no rule.

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

A dream is unrehearsed.