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"You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself."
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"The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well."
"I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything."
"The ears and the heart are connected, it's true,for when ears open wide, the heart opens up too."
"Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say."
"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."
"I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts."
"You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody."
"My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to."
"It is a tremendous gift to simply and truly listen to another."
"When somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences."
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"It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good."
"A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste."
"I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to love the piece you are playing. Even if you don't like it, you have to play it as if you would like it. Then you are a good interpreter."
"So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms."
"Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference."
"Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles."
"When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down."
"Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things."
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