I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
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It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do.
Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
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