Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.
I never studied, but I had the best teachers.
You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.
The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through the performance, and the performer and the listener will walk together with the soul of the composer, and with God.
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge.
Libertad no es hacer lo que queremos hacer sino hacer lo que debemos hacer.
A man thinks all dust stays outdoors.
Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.