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It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.
To retire is to die.
Music will save the world.
To retire is to begin to die.
Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.
To retire is the beginning of death.
I don't have hobbies. I have passions.
Say things to the world that are true.
To live is not enough; we must take part.
We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.
Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.
If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.
Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.
Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.
The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.
As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.
To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.
Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.
The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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.
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.
Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.
The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.
Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
