Jeremy Denk famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethovenâ€™s last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will somehow enable you to deliver the Gettysburg Address.
-- Jeremy Denk

#Finals #Movement #Thumbs
The only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is You.
-- Jeremy Denk

#Labyrinth #Solve #Persons
Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.
-- Jeremy Denk

#Imperfection #Humanity #Quality
Sometimes you wish you could go back and ask your teachers again to guide you; but up there onstage, exactly where they always wanted you to be, you must simply find your way. They have given all the help they can; the only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is you.
-- Jeremy Denk

#Teacher #Labyrinth #Wish
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play Chopin. It might seem that they involve different skill sets, but I don't think that's true: whether playing Ives or Bach or Beethoven, you must bring the same imagination, the same sensitivity, and an ability to deal with same kinds of musical problems. The method behind my madness, anyway, is to keep plugging away at this idea.
-- Jeremy Denk

#Thinking #Play #Skills
It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.
-- Jeremy Denk

#Attention #Ciphers #Clue

When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.
I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.
I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
The final act of business judgment is intuitive.
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses
I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
Revolution: Political movement which gets many peopleÂ´s hopes up, letÂ´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.
When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.
The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.
As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.

Jeremy Denk famous quotes

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