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

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

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Nobody else can make the sound you make.

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Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.

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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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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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Perfection is not very communicative

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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

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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.

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