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I’ve never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.

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Sometimes I like practicing, sometimes I don’t. But I like the result… I hardly ever get discouraged. Maybe right when it’s very hard to get something done correctly, but then the idea flashes through of how to fix it. And I get encouraged. And other ideas flow.

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A concert is my experimentation time. I practice playing something several different ways, but in a concert, inevitably I get more ideas onstage, in that combination of focus and adrenaline, than I could ever get in the practice room.

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It struck me that it would be fun to just play stuff with Hauschka. Not even have a project in mind, but just get together and make up some music and see what came out.

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I grew up without TV, I grew up listening to radio, I grew up reading.

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I try to prioritize a certain amount of quiet work every day.

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Touring is a more varied and interesting existence than I would have imagined.

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One of the most rewarding things is meeting someone after a concert who has never been to a concert before. It is incredibly rewarding when they say, ‘This is my first classical concert.’ It is really exciting for everyone.

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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.

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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.

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I think when a teacher says that you’re ready for something, it means you’re ready to learn it. It doesn’t always mean that you are completely capable of doing everything that’s inside the piece.

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When you have live music in the background, people are usually talking over it. You don’t actually get to listen to live music in your space all the time.

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I like to record. It’s very intense.

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There’s nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach. It’s wonderful music. It’s – on a grand scale, there’s a lot to it. There are – I can work on it for a long time and keep discovering more things, you know, that surprise me every time.

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I learn a lot in interviews, I learn about how careers differ.

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You never know what you’re going to learn from which pieces and which composers and colleagues are going to influence that thing you think you know.

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That word ‘prodigy’ has such a derogatory implication. It is used to describe people who are forced to play a lot of concerts very early, people whose audience comes because of their youth, people who are exploited. None of the above really applied to me.

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The audience will find the artist who matches their interests. If you’re not being true to yourself, your audience can’t find you, because there’s a wall up between who you are and who they’re seeing.

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Taking on music that’s not played very much is a contribution I can give. There’s so much I feel that needs more attention.

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You couldn’t be performing if it weren’t for the audience. I appreciate them being there. So why not applaud them? They took time out of their schedule to show up and sit in the concert hall and be part of the experience.

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I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on sports.

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If you start censoring what you’re interested in for the audience, you don’t give the audience enough credit.

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Growing up as a classical musician, you’re taught a lot about outreach and about how people aren’t being taught music in school. But you don’t have to study music to like it. And a lot of the music that people like – be it jazz or rock or opera – is stuff they haven‘t studied.

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Everyone is always making transitions in life.

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For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.

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Sometimes, I’m not sure why I wind up doing some of the things I do.

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The encore should wrap up the audience’s experience of the piece you just played.

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I enjoy reading and thinking, and it’s hard to make that space as an artist.

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Of course everyone has those moments of frustration now and then, when you say, ‘I wish I could play well already – or just stop.’ But it’s too much trouble to stop just for a moment of frustration. It is when you keep going that you make the most progress.

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When I was starting out with record companies, there was a tendency to simplify the image as a prodigy. I have more than one adjective, and I’ve always tried to be myself and listen to my instincts.

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As a young performer, what you need to be doing is building your technique and musicality, not promoting your abilities – unless you’re ready to take on all that will result from such an approach.

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I grew up in Baltimore.

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If you think about it – if you watch a gymnast compete, you don’t see their training behind the scenes. You just see the competition. You see the final result when it’s polished. And that is very much what people experience with concerts. They go to the concert. And they see the final version.

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There’s this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

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Most kids are very seriously interested in something – friends, math, shopping, sports. For me it happened to be music and the violin. I had the chance to pursue it without having it get in the way of my life.

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For vacation, I like going to places I’ve never been before. I’ve gone to some remote places, like the Arctic Circle.

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Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it’s really hard to open that conversation if you’re telling people exactly what to do or feel or think.

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I always feel I have a long way to go in my playing and my music.

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What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to be a combination of their face and your face.

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It’s really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the composer meant. Well, it’s what the composer meant in that moment when they wrote it.

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In the performance sense, I find that interpretation is improvisatory in nature. You can go anywhere with an interpretation on any given day.

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I’m more creative the more rules I have – note values, tempos, dynamic markings. Somehow, I find that really inspiring.

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Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.

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Deutsche Grammophon really has a grasp of the classical repertoire.

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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?’

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