Why I Do It...

 I don’t satisfy people with their usual menu, the usual way of eating what they enjoy. I’m not young anymore, and I had spent quite a long time fighting, suffering, asking myself what I was doing and actually, why I do it. Then at a certain point in my life I decided that it is not my duty to be liked and loved by everybody. My duty is only and alone to bring my vision of the piece with me.’

- Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violinist. Interview in The Strad