Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.

I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.

Sense of community was really fostered by Larry Laurenzano, who was a great educator.

[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the Rite of Spring. Or, "I'm going to play you some 20th century obscure classical composer you don't know". Or, "Let's listen to some Charles Ives, let's sight read some Bartok violin duets", etc.

Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.

I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.