Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

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Good things happen when you meet strangers.

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

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Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

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Perfection is not very communicative

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In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

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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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