The Most Important Thing In Music Is

I Don't Have Hobbies. I Have Passions.

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.

To Retire Is To Begin To Die.

For Twelve Years I Studied And Worked At Them Every Day, And I Was Nearly 25 Before I Had The Courage To Play One Of Them In Public. Before I Did, No Violinist Or Cellist Had Ever Played A Suite In Its Entirety.

Beauty Is All About Us, But How Many Are Blind! They Look At The Wonder Of This Earth And Seem To See Nothing. People Move Hectically But Give Little Thought To Where They Are Going. They Seek Excitement ... As If They Were Lost And Desperate.