When You Learn Something From People, Or

I Remember When I Was Growing Up. My Great Wish Was To Understand Who I Was And How I Fit In The World.

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.

Things Can Fall Apart, Or Threaten To, For Many Reasons, And Then There's Got To Be A Leap Of Faith. Ultimately, When You're At The Edge, You Have To Go Forward Or Backward; If You Go Forward, You Have To Jump Together.

Once Something Is Memorable, It's Living And You're Using It. That To Me Is The Foundation Of A Creative Society.

My Teacher, My Great Cello Teacher Leonard Rose, Was Such A Great Cellist, And Nurturing Man, Very Patient. But I Grew Up Not Only Admiring Him, But Obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline Du Pre, And Many Others, Including Many Of My Peers And Contemporaries.