For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.

And I'm ill with the thought of your kiss, coffee-laced intoxicating on her lips... shut it out, I've got no claim on you now, I'm not allowed to wear you freedom down

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality.

It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.