Hilary Hahn Quotes

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

You learn something new on every film.

I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new things in many spheres.

When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.

I've learned mainly by reading myself. So I don't think I have any original ideas. Certainly, I talk about reading Graham. I've read Phil Fisher. So I've gotten a lot of my ideas from reading. You can learn a lot from other people. In fact, I think if you learn basically from other people, you don't have to get too many new ideas on your own. You can just apply the best of what you see.

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Every single book is a challenge.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.