There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all these guys. Why waste your time, because most likely you're not going to be on that level anyway.