Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.

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

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

A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.

Searching and the route we take are more important than making a find.

Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.