To Retire Is The Beginning Of Death.

For The Past Eighty Years I Have Started Each Day In The Same Manner... I Go To The Piano, And I Play Preludes And Fugues Of Bach... It Is A Sort Of Benediction On The House.

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

How Could Anybody Think Of Bach As 'cold' When These [cello] Suites Seem To Shine With The Most Glittering Kind Of Poetry," Casals Said. "as I Got On With The Study I Discovered A New World Of Space And Beauty... The Feelings I Experienced Were Among The Purest And Most Intense In My Artistic Life!

Music Must Serve A Purpose; It Must Be A Part Of Something Larger Than Itself, A Part Of Humanity.