We Live In The Least Ugly Time

If You Mess Up The Tiniest Little Thing In The Beethoven Concerto, Or The Phrasing Isn't Just Exactly Perfectly Executed, Beethoven Brings Out The Worst In The Best Violinist. You Almost Never Hear A Satisfying Performance, Because It Doesn't Play Itself.

Actors Want To Do Shakespeare Again And Again, Or Want To Do Hamlet. When You Hear One Guy Do Hamlet And Another Guy Do It, It's Going To Be A Whole Different Experience.

We Live In The Least Ugly Time In History. If You Look At Back When Beethoven Was Writing, Half The Kids Were Dying, Mothers Were Dying At Childbirth, There Were More Wars Going On Then Than There Are Now. People Wrote The Most Beautiful Things During The Ugliest Times.

I Was Lucky Enough To Have Parents Who Started Me On Music Very Early, But Most Kids Don't Get That Kind Of Exposure.

You Don't Have To Have Lots Of Love Affairs To Know What Love Is.