Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.