We May Be Coming To A New

I Want To Investigate Different Cultures, To See How Their Identities And Values Affect Their Music. It's One Way I Can Get To Know Our World, At Least To A Certain Depth.

A Senegalese Poet Said 'in The End We Will Conserve Only What We Love. We Love Only What We Understand, And We Will Understand Only What We Are Taught.' We Must Learn About Other Cultures In Order To Understand, In Order To Love, And In Order To Preserve Our Common World Heritage.

Music Is Powered By Ideas. If You Don't Have Clarity Of Ideas, You're Just Communicating Sheer Sound.

It's Easy For Me To Care About Toronto, Because Toronto Is A Community That Cares About Itself. It Represents The World. It Talks To Itself, And Because It Does, It Figures Out That There Must Be A Music Garden As Part Of Its Existence.

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.