53 Hilary Hahn Quotes for You to Enjoy

Hilary Hahn

American Musician

Born: Nov 27, 1979

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I learn a lot in interviews, I learn about how careers differ. Hilary Hahn

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If you think about it - if you watch a gymnast compete, you don't see their training behind the scenes. You just see the competition. You see the final result when it's polished. And that is very much what people experience with concerts. They go to the concert. And they see the final version. Hilary Hahn

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I always feel I have a long way to go in my playing and my music. Hilary Hahn

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There's nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach. It's wonderful music. It's - on a grand scale, there's a lot to it. There are - I can work on it for a long time and keep discovering more things, you know, that surprise me every time. Hilary Hahn

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Touring is a more varied and interesting existence than I would have imagined. Hilary Hahn

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I have a lot of interests. I daydreamed about various career options growing up; the one I'm in is the first one that worked out, and I love it, so I feel very lucky. Hilary Hahn

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I like to record. It's very intense. Hilary Hahn

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For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together. Hilary Hahn

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Sometimes a person comes into an audience after a rough day, and they want to hear something they know. Hilary Hahn

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Writing is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music. Hilary Hahn

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I have always enjoyed literature classes, and I took a fiction workshop for writing and analyzing at Curtis... I don't know if would do it professionally, but it's nice to have the balance with the music. Hilary Hahn

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I remember when I gave my first recital. I thought, 'Oh, my goodness, people are coming to hear me.' I didn't expect anyone to come, and then the whole hall filled up. Of course, it wasn't a big hall, and some of the people were my friends and family. Hilary Hahn

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A concert is my experimentation time. I practice playing something several different ways, but in a concert, inevitably I get more ideas onstage, in that combination of focus and adrenaline, than I could ever get in the practice room. Hilary Hahn

That word 'prodigy' has such a derogatory implication. It is used to describe people who are forced to play a lot of concerts very early, people whose audience comes because of their youth, people who are exploited. None of the above really applied to me. Hilary Hahn

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When I was starting out with record companies, there was a tendency to simplify the image as a prodigy. I have more than one adjective, and I've always tried to be myself and listen to my instincts. Hilary Hahn

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It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the composer meant. Well, it's what the composer meant in that moment when they wrote it. Hilary Hahn

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As a professional, you pick up ideas from your colleagues and the orchestras you work with, while coming up with mutual interpretations in very short periods of time. Hilary Hahn

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My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences. Hilary Hahn

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I don't really compare myself to anybody. That would be very unhealthy. Hilary Hahn

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If my career doesn't work out as a violinist, I want to become an archaeologist. I've read about paleontology, too - that's dinosaur bones - but I thought it would be more interesting to do archaeology. Hilary Hahn

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What I do is creative. It doesn't seem like that when I'm playing a piece that was written in the past, but the score is just the outline and everything in it is relative. The key is to make this piece written by someone else belong to you and then connect to the audience. Hilary Hahn