If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.
I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.
You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Everybody is someone else's instrument.
When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.
When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.
I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.