Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

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

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

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

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.