Hilary Hahn Quotes

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.

You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them.

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

There's nothing worse than working with an orchestra who looks down on working with a conductor who doesn't want to conduct for you. You need to be with an orchestra that can follow you and respect you.

I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

Armaan has a simple approach and understands what a composer wants. I tell him, 'Give the song your own vibe but I will still come and fight with you and change it.'

A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an audience, and the mercurial brilliance of a host of musicians, and shape them all to his or her interpretative ends.

Me and Kehlani have music together, and I love her.