The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

I have been hurt so bad and I still love so hard, I admire my heart for that.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again

You are a child of God.

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

Turn your nightmares into your dreams , some dreams don't turn out the way you want them to , then wake up and turn and turn it around in your favour.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.