Quotes by Hilary Hahn

When we talk about music, we tend to place our experiences into one of two categories: making the music and listening to it. Delineating the two seems practical and obvious. In reality, though, there are a lot of opportunities for overlap, and it doesn't matter how you get into the music as long as you connect with it.

Sometimes a person comes into an audience after a rough day, and they want to hear something they know.

I learn a lot in interviews, I learn about how careers differ.

It struck me that it would be fun to just play stuff with Hauschka. Not even have a project in mind, but just get together and make up some music and see what came out.

For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.

When I was younger, I felt more like a student working with a mentor when I worked with the conductor, but now it feels more like equals.

I get to work with a lot of great musicians - many I wouldn't have expected to work with - and see how they form their lives around their music and how they approach it.

Touring is a more varied and interesting existence than I would have imagined.

You never know what you're going to learn from which pieces and which composers and colleagues are going to influence that thing you think you know.

I like to record. It's very intense.