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The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

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Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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.
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
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.
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.