As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

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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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Perfection is not very communicative

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Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.

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A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.

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

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

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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

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