We Live In The Least Ugly Time

You Only Live Once, So I Try To Say Yes To Everything.

When You Play A Violin Piece, You Are A Storyteller, And You're Telling A Story.

Every Orchestra Is Different. Sometimes, You're Blown Away By A Particular Musician. If I'm Playing The Brahms Concerto, It's Crucial To Have A Great Oboe Player, Because We Work In Tandem.

I Don't Sleep With A Violin In My Bed, But There Is Something Very Magical About The Instrument. You Open Up The Case; It's A Masterpiece, It's Gorgeous, The Varnish Is Still There From 300 Years Ago. People Who Know Violins, They Look At It And It's Almost Like A Face.

We Live In The Least Ugly Time In History. If You Look At Back When Beethoven Was Writing, Half The Kids Were Dying, Mothers Were Dying At Childbirth, There Were More Wars Going On Then Than There Are Now. People Wrote The Most Beautiful Things During The Ugliest Times.