Helene Grimaud quotes
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“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 during a rehearsal.”
-- Helene GrimaudSource : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
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“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 GrimaudSource : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
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“Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.”
-- Helene GrimaudSource : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
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“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. But I believe that the connection to a piece of music is something much more personal and mysterious than all of these bits of information.”
-- Helene GrimaudSource : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
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“We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.”
-- Helene GrimaudSource : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
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“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 independent, how much older or more mature you get - there is still that element, the dynamic of the relationship that is very hard to successfully transform, and that has nothing to do with the music-making, in the end.”
-- Helene GrimaudSource : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
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“It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers. None of them seemed too concerned about the plastic realization of their music.”
-- Helene GrimaudSource : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
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“When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.”
Source : "Alesha Dixon: My Mum Taught Me That Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" by Leigh Purves, www.express.co.uk. August 05, 2013.
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“Whatever brings you down, will eventually make you stronger.”
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“Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.”
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