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A lot of musicians are going to have to retrain. It's nonsense to say that traditional classical music is more complex. Contemporary pieces by Harrison Birtwistle are much harder to play than Mozart or Wagner. I know a lot of people don't want to hear that.

— Joanna MacGregor

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Once you start cancelling, there's always something which is not quite right.

I quite like shutting the door, putting the answering machine on and sitting at the piano for six or seven hours.

Memory is the fear, and I play most of my repertoire from memory.

As a musician you can cover everything. I'm not just a concert pianist.

My favorite composers tend to be great improvisers as well as great players. It doesn't matter whether they're contemporary or classical.

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