The Earth Becomes Heaven When You Release

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.

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.

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.

Do We Dare To Be Ourselves?' This Is The Question That Counts - And Not, 'must A Man Be Helpless?' ...a Man Can Do Something For Peace Without Having To Jump Into Politics.

Resist Doing Things That Have No Meaning For Life.