Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding, so it makes me more motivated. It's like my mother said about having an artistic child - she learned more from him and he gets more attention and more of the love, not less.

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.