Best quotes by Hilary Hahn on Music

Checkout quotes by Hilary Hahn on Music

• ‟ In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.

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• ‟ Through the Internet and technology, anyone can now seek out any artist, composer or undefined niche of music they find interesting. All on their own, without even having to stand up or go anywhere.

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• ‟ Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it's really hard to open that conversation if you're telling people exactly what to do or feel or think.

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• ‟ It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the composer meant. Well, it's what the composer meant in that moment when they wrote it.

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• ‟ There's nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach. It's wonderful music. It's - on a grand scale, there's a lot to it. There are - I can work on it for a long time and keep discovering more things, you know, that surprise me every time.

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• ‟ Obviously, something like ballet, you have music, you dance with the music and it's a very direct connection. With visual art, when there's no music that accompanies the art, such as great masterworks in a museum, you wind up interpreting what the artist is doing, how the artist made that work and what they're conveying.

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• ‟ When you have live music in the background, people are usually talking over it. You don't actually get to listen to live music in your space all the time.

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• ‟ I get to work with a lot of great musicians - many I wouldn't have expected to work with - and see how they form their lives around their music and how they approach it.

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• ‟ It struck me that it would be fun to just play stuff with Hauschka. Not even have a project in mind, but just get together and make up some music and see what came out.

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• ‟ Writing is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music.

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• ‟ When we talk about music, we tend to place our experiences into one of two categories: making the music and listening to it. Delineating the two seems practical and obvious. In reality, though, there are a lot of opportunities for overlap, and it doesn't matter how you get into the music as long as you connect with it.

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• ‟ You don't need to be a performer in order to dive into the sensory experience of music. Simply get as close as you can to the source of the music.

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