35:33

"In music you can feel so much and just let go - and you do" - Martina Arroyo

43:50

"To me a performance is not an exhibition-- it's an offering.” - Marc-André Hamelin

01:13:40

"You start something, and it gets a life of its own." - Jörg Widmann

30:29

“So many of us musicians play with pain" -- Brian Thornton

33:38

"Something always leads to something; nothing always leads to nothing." - Kate Sheeran

42:23

"I don't want my audience to see me. I want them to see themselves." - Golda Schultz

30:37

"As a mother of three now, the stage is more relaxing than life." - Melissa Errico

39:27

"I feel a lot less shy on stage." - Oliver Herbert

36:05

"The biggest part of the work is at home and alone." - Gianandrea Noseda

37:32

"You do get better at even the things you're terrible at, if you practice." - Lisette Oropesa

40:10

"Working with Bill Murray taught me that classical music doesn’t need an explanation." - Jan Vogler

34:22

"I did what I had to do: I challenged myself." - Joshua Roman

43:05

"I spent my whole life trying to make the harp sound like a piano." - Yolanda Kondonassis

36:25

"Surround children with musical role models and they will become that role model" - Francisco Núñez

27:24

"I feel everything in life is just an improvisation." - violinist Filip Pogády

39:50

"Let’s not forget: life is more important than a concert." - Anne-Sophie Mutter

42:28

"Mozart is hard." - Ilya Itin

33:16

"Sublimity can be terrifying." - Paul Jacobs

29:47

"I don’t want to sing out of fear." - Ailyn Pérez

41:34

“The loudest sound in the world cannot top the energy of a silence.” - Manfred Honeck

31:10

“Music criticism will never return to what it used to be.” - Donald Rosenberg

27:24

"Our radio broadcasts sell a lot of orchestra tickets." - Robert Conrad

34:17

"When we started Apollo’s Fire, I was living on Ramen noodles." - Grammy-winner Jeannette Sorrell

23:10

“If you go for fame, you have a problem.” - Vladimir Ashkenazy

23:06

“It’s dangerous if you become famous overnight.” - Jean-Yves Thibaudet

01:39:08

Bridge of Names - feature film

22:29

“I can only feel free if I forget about myself.” - Susanna Mälkki

34:44

“You have to have inner confidence, and a team that is listening to you... " - Brian Zeger

34:53

“Composing is a battle for me.” - John Corigliano

32:09

“I never let anybody put me down.” - Robert White

35:58

“We are showcasing the beauty of imperfection.” - Nadine Sierra

41:30

“Entering a competition is like going to a 7-11 and buying a lottery ticket.” - Emanuel Ax

27:32

“I didn’t allow Lang Lang or Yuja Wang to compete.” - Gary Graffman

40:07

“The fire you have to walk through will be one of the greatest strengths you have.” - Joyce DiDonato

21:32

Artemis Quartet - Living the Classical Life: Episode 54

45:35

“Are you feeling emotion, or are you just showing it?” - Bruce Adolphe

35:47

“Play in such a way as to make everybody around you better.” - Roger Nierenberg

37:47

“For me, life is beginning at ninety.” - Seymour Bernstein

44:44

"I felt my life was over." - Alex Klein

30:55

"It's impossible to be loved by everybody." - Alisa Weilerstein

06:50

Part 2/Kenny Barron: Classical music and "the swamp of Jazz"

00:18

September 24, 2017

03:41

1. “What is Jazz?” - Living the Jazz Life: Kenny Barron

00:17

Just the opening credits

00:12

The opening credits

41:11

“My career was mostly motivated by fear.” - Susan Graham

35:04

“I knew a teacher who for the last 20 years watched TV while teaching lessons.” - Dmitri Levkovich

32:16

"I truly believe that art gives us the gift of empathy." - Jennifer Koh

41:33

“Perfection is deeply boring.” - Anthony Roth Costanzo

26:49

“Performing is like a drug.” - Caroline Oltmanns

37:16

“I try to not wait until I am too comfortable.” - Astrid Schween

28:53

"He crushes it." - Yefim Bronfman

39:58

“I don’t try to reel my audience in — I try to reel myself in.” - Deborah Voigt

38:47

“Composition is something you do because you can't imagine doing anything else.” - Lowell Liebermann

30:10

“Performance never becomes comfortable — we like that risk.” - Christina & Michelle Naughton

32:12

“I was by no means a prodigy.” - Steven Isserlis

39:53

“The way that people build careers is mysterious and unique to each person.” - Jeremy Denk

32:06

“Musicians are so incredibly well-equipped to be successful.” - David Stull

43:03

“Perfection is never the goal. It's about being special.” - Lawrence Brownlee

31:59

“Of all the places I'd played, the most meaningful for me was the meat department.” - Nicholas King