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

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

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

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

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.

Negative Confession is not a Choice of words but a Weakness

God can cure any illness.

She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the only man she'd ever loved.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

Life is measured in achievement not in years alone

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

I love the little suckers; they're so cute. But I love sleep so much, and I worry about everything.

Life has gotten in the way of our life.

Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule.

here are some homosexuals whom we would do well to take seriously.