"I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure."
"I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core."
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"You can't learn pathos or profundity."
"I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever."
"If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job."
"Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time."
"Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along."