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

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

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

Nobody else can make the sound you make.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.

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.