A mother understands what a child does not say.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.