When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.

I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.

Truth only exists for those who cling to it."Sosuke Aizen

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!

When you have no preconceived notion of what you are good at, you are open to life's many possibilities.

When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it.

I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.

Learn from the mistakes of others- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

I always beat Jankovic so who do you think I want to play?

Travelling fills me with dread.

The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.