Don't Play The Notes. Play The Meaning

The First Thing To Do In Life Is To Do With Purpose What One Purposes To Do.

To The Whole World You Might Be Just One Person, But To One Person You Might Just Be The Whole World.

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.

It Takes Courage For People To Listen To Their Own Goodness And Act On It.

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.