"You can make music to placate, you can make music to monetize, or you can make music because you're curious about how this sounds or that works. When you do that there are people who are adventurous who will go with you on that adventure."
"What I've learned now is that there is no time limit or cut off time for growth. You can still grow and mature and change and become the person you want to be."
"When I heard it for the first time I was really just so happy. It's something that I dreamed of when I was writing and just hearing it right in front of me was just amazing."
"I've managed to take control of the reins of my career which is hard work. Maybe I wouldn't want to do it in ten years, but I still want to do it now."
"You get to enjoy that really amazing experience of the audience responding to to what you've offered. But you cannot bite it. You have to you have to keep a distance from it and and be privileged to be in the same vicinity of that kind of experience." Lyric soprano Patricia Racette has spent much of her career in...
"The violin is my voice. When you have so much to say what it comes down to it is are you transporting yourself and the audience with what you have to say through your music."
"I did resonate with how his family labeled him a peculiar kid. I experienced that growing up, not from my family, but the neighborhood."
"A singer goes through so much; they have such a big job to do. And I respect what they go through. I can't do it. Yet there are things that the pianist does which is equally impressive and important for me."
"I feel that every day I pick up the instrument is an opportunity to reinvent myself better, better in the image of the instrument, which will always be better than me, better in the image of the composer's living or recently dead or long dead, who are often also humbling figures in in one's psyche."
"I thought that fame was important. I thought having a house was important. That to have a car was important, not for material purposes, but for the purpose of feeling like you've achieved something...now my wants have to do more with kindness"