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

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.

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.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?""Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of—""Someone you used to know?" Alec interjected skepti

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

I think he's going down, ... It's gonna be the 'Revenge for O.J. '

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Far less envy in America than in France.

Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.