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.

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When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.

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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

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Good things happen when you meet strangers.

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Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

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Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

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Nobody else can make the sound you make.

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Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.

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Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.

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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

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