106 Quotes by Hilary Hahn

I wound up sticking with violin because it was the strongest current in my life.

It's easy to be a prodigy. It's really hard to keep pushing in new directions.

Music can inspire immediate emotional reactions, even if the only person who hears it is the person creating it.

Most kids are very seriously interested in something - friends, math, shopping, sports. For me it happened to be music and the violin. I had the chance to pursue it without having it get in the way of my life.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

I try to prioritize a certain amount of quiet work every day.

That word 'prodigy' has such a derogatory implication. It is used to describe people who are forced to play a lot of concerts very early, people whose audience comes because of their youth, people who are exploited. None of the above really applied to me.

I grew up not watching TV and I enjoy TV but it kind of takes my brain away from me.

There's nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach. It's wonderful music. It's - on a grand scale, there's a lot to it. There are - I can work on it for a long time and keep discovering more things, you know, that surprise me every time.