Music Is Powered By Ideas. If You

You Must Have A Reason To Be In The Places To Which You Go, And You Must Do Only Things That You Really Care About.

My Teacher, My Great Cello Teacher Leonard Rose, Was Such A Great Cellist, And Nurturing Man, Very Patient. But I Grew Up Not Only Admiring Him, But Obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline Du Pre, And Many Others, Including Many Of My Peers And Contemporaries.

Many Of The Central Asians Know Russian, And Ted Levin Speaks It Fluently. I Speak Chinese, But Mongolian Is Completely Different, So We Had To Have Translators.

When We Have A Good Balance Between Thinking And Feeling... Our Actions And Lives Are Always The Richer For It.

The Tradition Of Classical Music And The Opera Is Such That It Used To Be The Place Where Social Intercourse Could Take Place Between All Parts Of Society: Politicians, Industrialists, Artists, Citizens, Etc. That Tradition, I Think, Still Exists, But It's Much, Much More Diluted.