Jeremy Denk Quotes
- Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 play…
- The only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is You.
- 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,…
- I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.
- 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…