Tag: The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

"There's always an idea of streaming against the mainstream. From there you find your own identity, you find your own truth, your find your own individuality. That's always something that consciously or unconsciously was something that was always a part of my makeup. "

"I can't say that I'm an activist in any way. I'm hoping that through the work of being a musician there's something positive that I can bring to the conversation or people's experience."

"What the future holds? I don't know. I mean, it's the first time in 36 years of working that I'm leaving a job without knowing what the next job is."

"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."

"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."

"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 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"

"The book is full of a sense of time and a sense of place. I think she talks about the feeling that time is shrinking and expanding. I think so much of it relates to how we feel about time and space and our bodies and sensation and memory."

Our holiday weekend Best Bets led by Min Kwon and "America/Beautiful"

"Sometimes the hero knows what to do. Tevye ain't that. The reason that he's popular is because they either see themselves, their husbands or their father up on stage."