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Music is about the performance.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

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

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

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

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

I just want my music to involve an audience in what's taking place onscreen.

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.

The people need to feel the music.