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You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.