"I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful."

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"I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful."

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"I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library."

Leo Kottke, American Musician

Forget, Months, Shame

"When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days."

Patty Duke, American Actress

Forget, Listening, Old

"You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help."

John Hawkes, American Actor

Forget, Help

"Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you."

Douglas Horton, American Clergyman

Forget, Will

"Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget."

Arthur Laurents, American Playwright

Forget,

"If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

Forget,

"Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget."

Richard Sheridan, Irish Playwright

Forget, Memories

"Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them."

Jose Bergaman, American Musician

Forget,

"If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead."

Nikki Sixx, American Musician

Forget, Jokes, Now, Right

"I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines."

Christopher Meloni, American Actor

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"Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together."

Faith

"We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making."

Age

"I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests."

Family

"The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else."

Content

"I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home."

Home

"Good things happen when you meet strangers."

Strangers

"But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music."

Music

"Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world."

Music

"After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is."

Life

"One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another."

Trust