A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.