This is the only way I can do this. I have to be honest. I want to make the audience feel with me. We are living this together."
"I think for composers, you know your child better than everybody. You created it. But the child still has facets that you don't know and that will always be the case."
"There are lots of ways of circumnavigating people's expectations, which I try to do with my programing and the instruments that I play."
"I was thinking about the breathing thing. This is a much calmer sort of experience. It's also a challenge for me because normally I write a lot of fast notes. "
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"Who I am in the world of classical music is someone who says you may think that it's a difficult entry point, but here's how it's easy. "
"What's that next frontier for modern music? If anything, it feels to me a bit like maybe not leaning so heavily on one's unique identity."
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Coltrane, Parker, Kimberly Akimbo and André Previn
"It's only by letting go and having a tremendous amount of throughput, I think, that you can really find the meaning in the moments."