I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.
You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.
Civilization is the commercialization of survival.
What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
Inequality was the price of civilization.
the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin
Civilization is a scheme to hide nakedness.
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
I say fuck marriage, but we can do it for these westerners and explain it to the gods later.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
