I DO NOT OWN THE SOUND FILE TO THIS CLIP IT IS FOR MUSIC EDUCATION PURPOSES ONLY You have to master all the problems of technique to be free to express yourself through your instrument. You can have a big imagination and a big heart but you cannot express it without technique. The first quality you must have to be good, to be inspiring, is the sound. Without the sound you cannot achieve anything. The tone, the sound, the sonorité is most important. Otherwise, with the fingers alone it is not enough... Everyone these days has the fingers, the virtuosity... but the sound, the tone, that’s not so easy.’
– Jean-Pierre Rampal