"If you can show people that the people on stage are just like the people in the audience, it brings them closer." -- Michael Morgan

"If you work hard, you can actually catch up with the people you look up to." -- Michael Morgan

"You learn as much from yours students as you can teach them." -- Colin Williams

"The moment we confess something is the most powerful moment in our life." -- Hannibal Lokumbe

"Power comes with vulnerability." -- Hannibal Lokumbe

"Classical music has enriched my life because it's the language I speak." -- Jonathan Biss

"In opera it has to flow like life." -- Osvaldo Golijov

"If we don't do it ourselves, no one else is going to do it for us." -- Jonathan Biss

"Music is a language itself." -- Julia Fischer

"Our competition for the most part is inside. We are competing with ourselves." -- Mark Hughes

"Classical music is not boring, it's not stiff, it's not for the elite. It's done by people like me who love any other kind of music." -- Julian Rachlin

"If you can picture yourself doing anything else, do it. If you can't, you're in the right profession." -- Mark Hughes

"The Black Family has a history, and it's a strong history of togetherness." -- Dr. Anderson

"To be a conductor, the only way to learn is to conduct." -- Stephane Devene

"It's really not until you're comfortable with taking risks that you reach magical possibilities." -- Terrence Wilson

"Music can touch the preverbal person in all of us." -- Gil Shaham

"In life if you do not progress you regress." -- Nikolai Znaider

"Music only exists in the moment we play it." -- Nikolai Znaider

"If in the church is where you begin you don't have to leave it behind in order to be a professional singer." -- Twyla Robinson

"There is some value when you see something that is working to capture that gesture." -- Laura Jackson

"The great danger in music is to start repeating yourself." -- Nilolai Znaider

"With every blessing that you have of power comes responsibility." -- Terrence Wilson

"If you can give a gift to your kids give them the gift of language at an early age." -- Miguel Harth Bedoya

"It's easy to compose in such a way to try to impress one's peers...that I don't think is healthy...if instead you're just honest about what you enjoy about music...there will be some intrinsic value to that music." -- Michael Gandolfi

"In the case of Beethoven's 9th, it's a power that was centuries ago but also power that is contemporary; when you sing the text it's as if you were singing for peace today." -- Tania Leon

"What I love about classical music is the possibility of writing a long piece that leaves you completely transformed." -- Osvaldo Golijov

"Music is a celebration more than anything." -- Bobby McFerrin