“...for music alone can abolish differencesof language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.”

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”

“A relationship between two people can be judged by the list of things unspoken between them.”

“Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people.”

“The practice of invoking the myths and cultural practices of native cultures to give moral support to practices within our current culture is an increasingly common phenomenon. Thus, many people cite the example of native cultures to defend their habit of meat-eating. The act of wrenching a narrative out of the context of one culture and grafting it onto another is not only disrespectful and self-serving, it is an act of violence in its own right.”

“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”