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• ‟ I finally realized that not only was I passionate about music, but I had a unique way of thinking of music.

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• ‟ I was actually going to go to a conservatory after I graduated college, now I'm thankful that Pentatonix happened because I'm working with singers in this realm of mainstream music, and to learn about how all that comes together has really helped my cello playing.

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• ‟ Performing the American Music Awards and having Harrison Ford introduce you behind the John Williams orchestra for Star Wars, and then Meghan Trainor is in the front just standing up and like, 'I love you guys!' That was a huge moment.

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• ‟ That's something Pentatonix tries to do in all of our music. We try to keep it clean so that everybody can come to our shows.

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• ‟ We can watch videos of our whole journey - from old tours to doing the AMAs (American Music Awards) in 2013 and through the 'Star Wars' medley or when we sang with Stevie Wonder on the Grammys. I just sit back and say, 'I can't believe we did all this!'

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• ‟ I never thought that I would pursue a cappella music. I went to Yale College and I was going to go into the medical field.

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• ‟ My parents always wanted me to do music because they thought it was such a great extracurricular activity but we never thought it was going to be something that would be my career.

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• ‟ To be able to wake up and know I get to do music every single day - arrange music, compose music, write music and to be with my four best friends in the world, and just to go and do performances and to tour, it's honestly a dream come true.

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• ‟ I don't even want to say I'm trying to necessarily popularize classical music, I just want to take this thing, this cello, this sound, and make it artistic so people can understand it today.

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• ‟ The reason immigrants come to America is to provide their kids with opportunities, but when they say 'opportunity,' they mean a prestigious job and career. When I had the epiphany that I could do music and sustain myself, they were like, 'OK, son, we need to talk to you.'

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• ‟ For me, it's classical music I started with and I admire Jacqueline du Pre.

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• ‟ A cappella music has always been around. It's such an old form.

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• ‟ When you think about choir music, that's a cappella. You have church choir that you would sing without any instrument. I think the popular form that we have now is barbershop in the 20th century, and the collegiate movement.

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• ‟ It's quite difficult to figure out a common thread among us all as we're five very different people who love different types of music.

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• ‟ It's really a blessing that our music can reach across generations.

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• ‟ The thing we get to do is bring music to people. I think that's the most important thing we can do. That's the way we show joy. That's the way we show love. That's way we show our gifts to so many.

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