“I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a dis...” — Ludovico Einaudi Quote

“I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!”

“This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.”

“In Mali, you hear music everywhere. What is fantastic in Mali is the music tradition is handed down from father to son orally. It is not written. You learn from your father and add something, because you are living now and telling a story to others. This results in many different interpretations of the same song.”

“When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods.”

“You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.”

“Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.”