So much of performing is a mind game..

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing..

There are some days I take my violin out and it feels dreadful, like nothing is responding, and I want to sell it and get rid of it. And the next day….

If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings out the wo….

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin..

We live in the least ugly time in history. If you look at back when Beethoven was writing, half the kids were dying, mothers were dying at childbirth….

There are days that I get neurotic with the instrument [violin]. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a ….

Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in..

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story..

I think if there's ever been a time we need music more, it's now. For our kids, it teaches you to take time, to listen, to work together, to listen t….

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It'….

You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything..

Social media puts us inside our phones and our computers and our headphones, and we're not connecting so much with our outside environment. Even when….

I open up my violin case every day, and have one of the great creations. It is very inspiring. It makes you want to practice. How can you open up a c….

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is..

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do..

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film..

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures..

I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometim….

I always find it funny when people say, "I don't really like classical music" or "it doesn't do anything for me." I tell them, "Well, you know, it do….

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned f….