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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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When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

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Good things happen when you meet strangers.

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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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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.

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

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It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

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

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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

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I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: October 7th, 1955

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