I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

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

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 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.

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.

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.

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