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… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with. — Jeremy Denk Copy Share
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share
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… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share
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… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share
Sometimes you wish you could go back and ask your teachers again to guide you; but up there onstage, exactly where they always wanted… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share
Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection. — Jeremy Denk Copy Share
I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start. — Jeremy Denk Copy Share
