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.

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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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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

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Nobody else can make the sound you make.

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Perfection is not very communicative

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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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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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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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When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.

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