Hilary Hahn Quotes

I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in getting me auditions. By the time I was 7, I was playing concerts - it was just ridiculous.

I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things.

I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

I think it's human nature to say, 'You're a wrestler. That is what you do.' I think it can be hard sometimes for people to understand that you can have more than one thing you like to do.

He just has the knack, the ability, to do something special and crucial. This is Messi.

Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I'm very happy where I wound up.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."

I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.

It makes me wonder what this rapping shits a hobby for, oh that's right, because I'm gifted in another field, and another field, and another field.

I always knew I had something special.