9 Quotes by Jeremy Denk

Sometimes you wish you could go back and ask your teachers again to guide you; but up there onstage, exactly where they always wanted you to be, you must simply find your way. They have given all the help they can; the only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is you.

The only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is You.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

It’s no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it’s music, it doesn’t quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.

It's long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things.

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.

I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out of drawing connections between pieces and poems and literature and ideas.