"In music you can feel so much and just let go - and you do" - Martina Arroyo

"To me a performance is not an exhibition-- it's an offering.” - Marc-André Hamelin

"You start something, and it gets a life of its own." - Jörg Widmann

“So many of us musicians play with pain" -- Brian Thornton

"Something always leads to something; nothing always leads to nothing." - Kate Sheeran

"I don't want my audience to see me. I want them to see themselves." - Golda Schultz

"As a mother of three now, the stage is more relaxing than life." - Melissa Errico

"I feel a lot less shy on stage." - Oliver Herbert

"The biggest part of the work is at home and alone." - Gianandrea Noseda

"You do get better at even the things you're terrible at, if you practice." - Lisette Oropesa

"Working with Bill Murray taught me that classical music doesn’t need an explanation." - Jan Vogler

"I did what I had to do: I challenged myself." - Joshua Roman

"I spent my whole life trying to make the harp sound like a piano." - Yolanda Kondonassis

"Surround children with musical role models and they will become that role model" - Francisco Núñez

"I feel everything in life is just an improvisation." - violinist Filip Pogády

"Let’s not forget: life is more important than a concert." - Anne-Sophie Mutter

"Mozart is hard." - Ilya Itin

"Sublimity can be terrifying." - Paul Jacobs

"I don’t want to sing out of fear." - Ailyn Pérez

“The loudest sound in the world cannot top the energy of a silence.” - Manfred Honeck

“Music criticism will never return to what it used to be.” - Donald Rosenberg

"Our radio broadcasts sell a lot of orchestra tickets." - Robert Conrad

"When we started Apollo’s Fire, I was living on Ramen noodles." - Grammy-winner Jeannette Sorrell

“If you go for fame, you have a problem.” - Vladimir Ashkenazy

“It’s dangerous if you become famous overnight.” - Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Bridge of Names - feature film

“I can only feel free if I forget about myself.” - Susanna Mälkki

“You have to have inner confidence, and a team that is listening to you... " - Brian Zeger

“Composing is a battle for me.” - John Corigliano

“I never let anybody put me down.” - Robert White