Hilary Hahn Quotes

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

I think musically.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

Music is music and there are only two types: good and bad.

If it's good music, it's good music.

Music is forever changing.

I grew up in a family that was very musical, learned the blues and everything like that. And I became a little bit frustrated with the simplicity of rock n' roll and blues. I started listening to a lot of classical music - mainly Bach, Vivaldi.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

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.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I can't re-define music every week!