With Every Year Of Playing, You Want

What Came Up At Age 49 Is I Realized That Of All The Things I'm Interested In, The Thing I'm Most Interested In Is Figuring Out What Makes People Tick, Why People Think The Way They Do, Why They Act The Way They Do. And I Realized That Music Is Such A Great Way To Investigate Why People Do What They Do.

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.

Bach Takes You To A Very Quiet Place Within Yourself, To The Inner Core, A Place Where You Are Calm And At Peace.

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

I Play An Instrument That Has Four Strings, And I'm Still Trying To Get It Right. What I've Tried To Do In The Process Of Playing These Four Strings Is To Try And Understand The People I Meet, The Stories They Have To Tell. And Then Become An Advocate For Them And Their Stories Through Music.