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My teacher, my great cello tea...

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.

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We may be coming to a new gold...

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

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There's a part of me that's al...

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

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Children, in a way, are consta...

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

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As a child, you respond physic...

As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

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There are limits to how much s...

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

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I've been traveling all over t...

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

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I love grocery shopping when I...

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

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You go through phases. You hav...

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

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With every year of playing, yo...

With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.

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When we have a good balance be...

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

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I really would like to be invo...

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

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People will ask, 'Are you famo...

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

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Passion is one great force tha...

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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Once something is memorable, i...

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

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My involvement in the politica...

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

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Music is powered by ideas. If ...

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

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Jazz has been such a force in ...

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

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I think that peace is, in many...

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

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I think one of the great thing...

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

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