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A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.
For various reasons, when people engage the Bible, they don't see very readily how it relates to their work.
I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.
I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.
I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.
In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.
I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.
Music has the power to unite us. It proves that by working together, we can create something truly beautiful.
I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.
Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all.
Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
If I like dubstep and electronic, why don't I make the violin fit me rather than making myself fit the violin?
Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.
I am travelling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things.
The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.
My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.
Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes.
After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.
It's endless, the amount of things that music touches on that can help kids grow that are very, very practical.
I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.
Music can inspire immediate emotional reactions, even if the only person who hears it is the person creating it.
I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
Practice with your fingers and you need all day. Practice with your mind and you will do as much in 1 1/2 hours.
I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.
Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.
I have visited schools that have music programs and those that don't. I see the way the kids act with each other.
I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
As a dancing violinist, there have been a couple of moments where I'm like, 'Oops! This is an expensive mistake!'
My favorite thing about the success I've found is that I get to share it with my family and the ones that I love.
Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.
I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on sports.
I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.
I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
It is so cool to be able to stand as a witness of Christ and to be able to be proud of it and be part of His army.
I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.
I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that's what I really loved about 'King Kong.'
You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life.
A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.
I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
For vacation, I like going to places I've never been before. I've gone to some remote places, like the Arctic Circle.
I've continued to pursue other interests in my downtime, but I'm glad I'm a musician. It's the perfect career for me.
I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.
Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.
Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.