“I have no objection against pop. I play it from time to time and listen to it a great deal. Yet, I feel at home with the classics, I find it fascinating to study a piece of music that is larger than life, where some human being has put a whole world of thoughts into it. I want to go deeper into the material, and not just consume a package of ‘3 minutes of emotion’ quickly. This is what classical music can give you.”
— Iskandar Widjaja, an accomplished violinist of Indonesian descent who, for some reason, spoke the words I’ve been trying to say all this while. (via restlessvoyager)
