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The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.
The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.
I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.
That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.
The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.
It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience.
When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.
The great thing about YouTube is there are no gatekeepers. No one is waiting to tell you if you're good enough. It's just your audience.
We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.
The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.
When I was younger, I felt more like a student working with a mentor when I worked with the conductor, but now it feels more like equals.
When I was 12, that's when I went to college. All my friends were 20, 21, and I was 12. It didn't even occur to me that that was strange.
I think - I'm always interested in reaching people in different ways, not by - not by just standing on a - randomly on a subway platform.
You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.
Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you’ve been searching for.
Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.
The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.
You know, the critics never change; I'm still getting the same notices I used to get as a child. They tell me I play very well for my age.
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
The gospel changes how we view and work with others in a way that both humanizes our interactions with them and empowers them to work well.
The thing about talent is that it comes at different ages, sometimes at a very early age. That's when I find it to be the most challenging.
The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.
Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.
When you have a teacher who is part of a tradition, the other people in that tradition are such stars. You just look at them like pop stars.
A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.
When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.
Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.
I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation.
In the performance sense, I find that interpretation is improvisatory in nature. You can go anywhere with an interpretation on any given day.
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
'The Conversation' was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.
It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.
Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question.
If you think your work is ultimately about a paycheck, then that will affect the quality of your work as well as the quality of your own life.
When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time.
Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.
I feel like when I'm on stage and when I'm performing - or I think when anybody is developing their talents and sharing it - I think you glow.
The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."
One of the unique aspects of the Bible is that it is primarily a story illustrated by teaching and not primarily teaching illustrated by story.
Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
Because of the gospel, God is doing a new work, and he invites us to participate in this innovative work that affects the entirety of our world.
Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to get music.
I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.
Whenever I work with people who are nonclassical artists, I kind of get a kick in the pants. I think, 'How can I apply what I do to their music?'
People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.
Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years
I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.
You don't need to be a performer in order to dive into the sensory experience of music. Simply get as close as you can to the source of the music.