Concerto Quotes

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That`s why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don`t feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don`t feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that`s all done, trust comes in.

I`d forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else`s dream.

This was a huge, huge undertaking. I composed this concerto from the ground up. It took about two years total to compose, but there were interruptions when I was touring and making rock albums,

The classical realm is dying because nobody cares about new classical composers. My concerto suite was an injection of something new,

I`m playing the Shostakovich One (Violin Concerto No. 1), and we`re recording it live, ... The work is so much fun, it`s a monster.

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.