Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

Music really is our daily medicine.

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

Happiness comes from actions.

look! Outside darkness going to brighten and the dawn of morning comes to welcome. The life starts with the light, and here we are under the heaven and earth. (Hadas Moosazadeh)

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.

I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.