I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

Music has always been transnational.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

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