A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the …

- Maya Beiser

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

- Maya Beiser

I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my voc…

- Maya Beiser

I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact …

- Maya Beiser

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

- Maya Beiser

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

- Maya Beiser

I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very …

- Maya Beiser

From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the …

- Maya Beiser

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

- Maya Beiser