Helene Grimaud quotes

“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 Grimaud

Source : 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 Grimaud

Source : 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 Grimaud

Source : 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 Grimaud

Source : 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 Grimaud

Source : 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 Grimaud

Source : 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 Grimaud

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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“In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.”

“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.

“Whatever brings you down, will eventually make you stronger.”

“The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.”

“Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song.”

“Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.”

“Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.”

“Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.”

“I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.”

“It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.”