I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

Music has always been transnational.

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.

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.

With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

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