Homeland is an emotional place, beyond borders.
Music can not change the world, but it can unite us for a while.
We do not go to concerts just to listen to music. It is the human need to be together. It is our basic need.
Balkan brass is punk – more madness than music. We all need some madness.
“I’m not the only composer to have been impressed and influenced by Gypsies … and what is the point of a tradition if we can’t take things from it?