Culture Opens Our Hearts To One Another.

When You Learn Something From People, Or From A Culture, You Accept It As A Gift, And It Is Your Lifelong Commitment To Preserve It And Build On It.

You Go Through Phases. You Have To Reinvent Reasons For Playing, And One Year's Answer Might Not Do For Another.

As A Child, You Respond Physically, Tactically. You're Delighted By Sound, You're Delighted By Recognizing Something. It's Like Hide And Seek. Is It There? Is It Not There? Is It This Note? Is It Not This Note? It's One Fantastic Game.

My Teacher, My Great Cello Teacher Leonard Rose, Was Such A Great Cellist, And Nurturing Man, Very Patient. But I Grew Up Not Only Admiring Him, But Obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline Du Pre, And Many Others, Including Many Of My Peers And Contemporaries.

Music Is Powered By Ideas. If You Don't Have Clarity Of Ideas, You're Just Communicating Sheer Sound.