Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience..

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for lif….

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it..

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately….

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realiz….

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust..

You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things that you really care about..

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical..

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent ….

Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your b….

When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong..

Perfection is not very communicative.

Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life..

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other..

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning..

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks..

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace..

Nobody else can make the sound you make..

When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives..

When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner..

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are t….