When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

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

Music has always been transnational.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

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.

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.