The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

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Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

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

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Nobody else can make the sound you make.

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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

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In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

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Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

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

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I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.

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