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. — 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 Image
I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy. — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
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 will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethoven’s last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection. — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
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 Image
