I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

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.

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

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

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

Nobody else can make the sound you make.