Grimaud Quotes

#1. If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

Madonna Ciccone

#2. My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

Helene Grimaud

#3. The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

Helene Grimaud

#4. Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

Confucius

#5. It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers. None of them seemed too concerned about the plastic realization of their music.

Helene Grimaud

#6. Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

Helene Grimaud

#7. Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.

Maurice Grimaud

#8. Living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.

Barkhad Abdi

#10. We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

Helene Grimaud

#11. When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically and artistically. But I believe that the connection to a piece of music is something much more personal and mysterious than all of these bits of information.

Helene Grimaud

#12. The silence isn't so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.

Owl City