The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process... We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.

The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.

Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school.

Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.