Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.
I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.
I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.
In August most of Europe goes on holiday.
We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.
I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.
And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.