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• A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we…
• Music has always been transnational;
• 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…
• Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right…
• Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and…
• Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
• You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things that you…
• Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at…
• Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
• We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
• My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up…

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