You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher.

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

Walk down Forest Ave to Joey's Pizza like we used to do after performances, which doesn't exist anymore. We had a sense of community [in the school band].

My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.