The beauty of music is that it can be enjoyed by everyone, no matter their background or circumstances.

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.