It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.

If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

Mirrors can't talk. Luckily for you, they can't laugh either.

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.

They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.