English Quotes

I love Neil Finn. I've loved everything he's done since Split Enz.

I can understand why those bands do it. It can be a hell of a lot of bloody fun. People are allowed to have a bit of fun after the age of 40, and a lot of them do need the money.

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas.

I do the cooking at home. Where we eat no more than 100 grams of meat a day and have 'tons' of fresh vegetables. I prepare the vegetables with a wide range of herbs, spices and such. We also keep on hand lots of fruit, yogurt and great breads.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.

Garden as though you will live forever.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

All gardening is landscape painting.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.