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.

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.

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.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

If you commit then struggle to fulfill it at any cost otherwise regret it.

See you on the other side, kid.

When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge.

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.