Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough that even if you play an open string, you feel it.

Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It synchronizes our minds. It allows people in groups to do a non-verbal immediate activity together.