To Retire Is To Begin To Die.

Don’t Be Vain Because You Happen To Have Talent. You Are Not Responsible For That; It Was Not Of Your Doing. What You Do With Your Talent Is What Matters.

Real Understanding Does Not Come From What We Learn In Books; It Comes From What We Learn From Love Of Nature, Of Music, Of Man. For Only What Is Learned In That Way Is Truly Understood.

In Music, In The Sea, In A Flower, In A Leaf, In An Act Of Kindness... I See What People Call God In All These Things.

For Me, Bach Is Like Shakespeare. He Has Known All And Felt All. He Is Everything.

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.