I Listen To Kids Play

I Find Personally That When I Go To A Place Where I Can't Get In, I Feel Hostility From Whatever It Is, A Hotel, A Shop, A Market, A Street Corner Where There Are No Curb Cuts, Because Somebody Forgot To Put Them In, And Where I Have To Go Two Blocks To The Corner To Do It. A Lot Of The Excuses Are, "well, This Is An Old Building." That's My Favorite One. "this Is An Old Building." It's As Though 50 Years Ago, People With Disabilities Did Not Exist. As If The Disabled Are A New Problem. It Has Always Been A Problem.

If You Play Something Well, I Don't Care What It Is. I Mean, I Don't Play An Electric [violin] - I Tried. It's Actually Interesting.

I Do Three Things. I Do Teaching, I Do Conducting And I Do Playing. And Each One Of Those Sort Of Helps The Other.

Every Musical Phrase Has A Purpose. It's Like Talking. If You Talk With A Particular Purpose, People Listen To You, But If You Just Recite, It's Not As Meaningful.

Perhaps Our Task In This Shaky, Fast-changing, Bewildering World In Which We Live Is To Make Music, At First With All That We Have, And Then, When That Is No Longer Possible, To Make Music With What We Have Left.