In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It's all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
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I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.
So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others.
When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.
I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.
I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.
I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
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