I Don't Always Have A Five-year Plan.

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.

One Of The Things I Love About Music Is Live Performance.

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.

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

It's Easy For Me To Care About Toronto, Because Toronto Is A Community That Cares About Itself. It Represents The World. It Talks To Itself, And Because It Does, It Figures Out That There Must Be A Music Garden As Part Of Its Existence.