“Climate and the world Music is a beautiful world”

“If music is the language of the world, then just imagine how beautiful a seven-billion-part harmony would be. ”

“Climate change adds further injustice to an already unfair world.”

“But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.”

“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”

“Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.”

“Auger could not help marvelling at the experience of being inside the ALS sphere and seeing her world as it should have been. This was an earth that had never known nuclear war, or runaway climatic catastrophe, or smart weather, or a Nanocaust. The sight of it made her want to weep. No image had ever come close to the heartbreaking beauty of this small blue world, a beauty all the more acute now that she knew how exquisitely fragile it was. It was the beauty of a butterfly’s wing.”

“I have the best fans in the world and I aim to utilise my platform for good — to share things I uncover about the world, climate, technology.”

“People have changed the climate of the world. Now they’re waiting for the old days to come back’.”

“The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.”