Nobody Else Can Make The Sound You

The Tradition Of Classical Music And The Opera Is Such That It Used To Be The Place Where Social Intercourse Could Take Place Between All Parts Of Society: Politicians, Industrialists, Artists, Citizens, Etc. That Tradition, I Think, Still Exists, But It's Much, Much More Diluted.

Music Is Powered By Ideas. If You Don't Have Clarity Of Ideas, You're Just Communicating Sheer Sound.

With Every Year Of Playing, You Want To Relax One More Muscle. Why? Because The More Tense You Are, The Less You Can Hear.

In Performance, We Have A Greater Purpose. The Greater Purpose Is That We're Communing Together, And We Want This Moment To Be Really Special For All Of Us. Because Otherwise, Why Bother To Have Come At All? It's Not About Proving Anything. It's About Sharing Something.

Music Has Always Been Transnational; People Pick Up Whatever Interests Them, And Certainly A Lot Of Classical Music Has Absorbed Influences From All Over The World.