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

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.

My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her 'Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn't make me a beautiful face?' and mother told me, 'My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'

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

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

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

I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

I played with the best conductors of the world.

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.

In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played.

I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did.

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

I know that after my letter there will be undoubtedly an 'opinion' about me, but I am not afraid of it. I openly say what I think. Talent, of which we are proud, must not be submitted to the assaults of the past.

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

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.

I have a very deep religious belief.

Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke.

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