Once Something Is Memorable, It's Living And

Culture Opens Our Hearts To One Another. And The Currency In Culture Is Not Money, But Trust.

It's Easy For Me To Care About Toronto, Because Toronto Is A Community That Cares About Itself. It Represents The World. It Talks To Itself, And Because It Does, It Figures Out That There Must Be A Music Garden As Part Of Its Existence.

Practicing Is Not Only Playing Your Instrument, Either By Yourself Or Rehearsing With Others - It Also Includes Imagining Yourself Practicing. Your Brain Forms The Same Neural Connections And Muscle Memory Whether You Are Imagining The Task Or Actually Doing It.

Things Can Fall Apart, Or Threaten To, For Many Reasons, And Then There's Got To Be A Leap Of Faith. Ultimately, When You're At The Edge, You Have To Go Forward Or Backward; If You Go Forward, You Have To Jump Together.

I've Been Traveling All Over The World For 25 Years, Performing, Talking To People, Studying Their Cultures And Musical Instruments, And I Always Come Away With More Questions In My Head Than Can Be Answered.