We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I’m put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.
Because I don’t take money, I’ll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
Very often, I don’t make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn’t occur when we’re on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.