Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.

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