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• ‟ We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.

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• ‟ I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

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• ‟ I started directing chamber orchestras, then adding bigger pieces, adding winds, adding small symphonies. I've always loved chamber music, and I've done a lot.

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• ‟ Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

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• ‟ When I do things, like, with Josh Grobin, or he has so many fans, and I get people after my concerts, classical concerts, all the time coming back and saying, 'Never heard of you until I heard the song with Josh Grobin.' Then they're now classical music fans, which is something I think we need to reach a wider audience.

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• ‟ It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.

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• ‟ I grew up in a musical environment. My parents played music and had it playing on the radio. They brought me to a concert at the age of 5, the same age I started violin lessons.

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• ‟ At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

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• ‟ In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

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• ‟ For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.

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• ‟ I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

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• ‟ I'm having a blast being the music director at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It certainly is challenging for me, but I love challenges.

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• ‟ Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.

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• ‟ I'm happy if my music is being downloaded, whether it's legally or illegally.

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• ‟ Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to get music.

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