The Simplest Things In Music

The Miracle Of Bach Has Not Appeared In Any Other Art. To Strip Human Nature Until Its Divine Attributes Are Made Clear, To Inform Ordinary Activities With Spiritual Fervour, To Give Wings Of Eternity To That Which Is Most Ephemeral; To Make Divine Things Human And Human Things Divine; Such Is Bach, The Greatest And Purest Moment In Music Of All Time.

I Am An Old Man But In Many Senses A Very Young Man. And This Is What I Want You To Be, Young, Young All Your Life.

The Heart Of The Melody Can Never Be Put Down On Paper.

The Child Must Know That He Is A Miracle, That Since The Beginning Of The World There Hasn't Been, And Until The End Of The World There Will Not Be, Another Child Like Him.

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.