To retire is to die.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. 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, and to say things to the world that are true.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

To retire is to begin to die.

Music will save the world.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

To retire is to die.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

The Cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older but younger with time more slender more supple more graceful.

The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Even miracles take a little time.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

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.

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.

Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn't have to worry about going out in bad weather. I could stay up late.

If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.

Any nominee is going to have to earn my support.

I thought we were going to win the game but we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.

There's not enough good things in the world.

Its fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

To me, flowers are happiness.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

I like to stand out in the crowd. So anytime a designer offers up items that are a little attention grabbing or pushing the boundaries ever so slightly, I'm always game for that.

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

Progress is the stride of God.