Perfection Is Not Very Communicative

Culture Opens Our Hearts To One Another. And The Currency In Culture Is Not Money, But Trust.

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

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.

Our Cultural Strength Has Always Been Derived From Our Diversity Of Understanding And Experience.

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.