Lindsey Stirling Quotes

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

I'm an interpreter of music.

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

If you watch me for a long time, you'll really understand and appreciate the way I play.

I love to watch people dance. It is the most fantastic skill and art form that anybody can have.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.

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

I do basically what a conductor does with a baton, except I also play along with the orchestra. So I have to juggle the roles of playing the concertmaster; sometimes I drop the violin and wave my arms.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

I dazzle you with that footwork.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.