Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

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

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

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.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.