Hilary Hahn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I pick things up in different cities, so my wardrobe is kind of a souvenir chest.
-- Hilary Hahn

#Cities #Different #Kind
I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.
-- Hilary Hahn

#Thinking #Jeans #People
I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.
-- Hilary Hahn

#Play #Needs #Able
I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.
-- Hilary Hahn

#People #Trying #Want
Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.
-- Hilary Hahn

#Writing #Rocks #Rock And Roll
I've had it for about 13 years, and I don't see any reason to change, I find that the violin just keeps responding really well. It changes itself every year; it ages, it goes through all these different environmental changes, and of course, the travelling...It develops on its own, just as any performer does. It's a very stable instrument, so I can rely on it, but at the same time it always shows me a different side of things than I expect.
-- Hilary Hahn

#Years #Environmental #Age
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument. When you think about the fact that the instrument has changed significantly since he wrote for it and his music still really works, it's brilliant. He was definitely ahead of his time. There's something so satisfying about his music. It's beautifully organized and emotional at the same time. I find it highly exciting.
-- Hilary Hahn

#Emotional #Thinking #Genius
The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.
-- Hilary Hahn

#Pieces #Program #Audience
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. Sometimes when they applaud if I'm still playing it's not as good, but there's always a way around it. Actually the applause gives me a little rest and chance to stretch, too.
-- Hilary Hahn

#People #Giving #Movement

It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
The hand is no different from what it creates.
Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.
The very best kind of Saddam Hussein is the very dead kind.
I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

Hilary Hahn famous quotes

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