You can't learn pathos or profundity.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.