Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

- Helene Grimaud

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

- Helene Grimaud

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or dur…

- Helene Grimaud

When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically and artistically. B…

- Helene Grimaud

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and e…

- Helene Grimaud

It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than perf…

- Helene Grimaud

There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how much more i…

- Helene Grimaud