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I love the outdoor festival feeling. When I'm on stage, it's very gratifying to watch people on the lawns enjoying the music with a glass of wine.

Everyone's definition of what God means can vary. But music is something that really takes you to that - 'sublime' is a great word. That thing that is greater than we are. The beauty, the magic of the universe.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice.

I love celebrating music in different and unique ways.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.

It's endless, the amount of things that music touches on that can help kids grow that are very, very practical.

I have visited schools that have music programs and those that don't. I see the way the kids act with each other.

When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.

As far as doing TV, I do think there's a big audience out there that could enjoy classical music, but they don't know how to find it, and sometimes by doing different things... crossover things probably make up about 5% of what I do.

In concertos, I stand up, and I conduct with the bow when I'm not playing. During symphonies, I sit, but sometimes I stop playing to conduct. Being seated in a section allows me to feel more like we're playing chamber music, which is how I like to approach it.

Music is such an incredible tool for kids in general. They learn discipline; they learn how to express themselves. You learn math. You learn language. It's the ideal teaching tool, and that's why it's mind-boggling when any school superintendent decides that music is something we can kind of do without.

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

I was born understanding the language of music.

Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn't the same.

I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing. A change of fashion was needed.

It is difficult to understand the fortunes of an instrument. There was music written for the guitar until the mid-19th century. Then the instrument declined in popularity.

I often go into shops and ask them to turn the music down.