Anne Akiko Meyers famous quotes

Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.
-- Anne Akiko Meyers

#Strong #Four #Violin

Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question.
-- Anne Akiko Meyers

#Careers #Use #Able

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.
-- Anne Akiko Meyers

#Rich #Commit

I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through music bins, buying stacks and stacks of CDs, and discovering rarely played pieces by composers.
-- Anne Akiko Meyers

#Hunting #Cds #Interesting

When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.
-- Anne Akiko Meyers

#Years #Musician #Trios

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.
-- Anne Akiko Meyers

#Play #Depth #Three

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.
-- Anne Akiko Meyers

#Community #Mind #Want

I remember performing in Russia when I was twenty, and I stayed at this hotel with 3000 rooms. There were sailors knocking on my room door, wanting to barter stuffed animals with Marlboros that I had been instructed to bring!
-- Anne Akiko Meyers

#Animal #Russia #Doors

Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.