“Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.”
“Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.”
“at the start of our together you were the prelude to a vast orchestration. at the end of it all you will have been the most profound and enduring music of my life.”
“Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.”
“Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.”
“When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.”