Vanessa Mae Quotes

• When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

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• To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

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• The stage is the best experience in the world. It’s a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don’t get to make the connection in the same way as when it’s one-to-one.

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• People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I’ve always been a tomboy.

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• Music will always be my greatest passion.

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• Music is about the performance.

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• Kids can be born with potential but unless it’s encouraged – pushed, even – I don’t think it will ever come to fruition.

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• In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

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• In an ideal world, I’d spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

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• I’ve decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

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• I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

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• I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

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• I don’t mind about the boos from the audience.

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• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I’d fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

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• For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn’t have time for university.

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• But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.

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• But I still think it’s mind over matter in the sense that if you’re strong, you can combat anything.

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• But I don’t think I’ve grown up to be a damaged adult.

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• But I don’t mind, I’m a bit of a touring animal. When I’m on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

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• All the time I’m changing as an artist and as a person.

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Vanessa Mae (22)

Birth:	27th October, 1978
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Musician

About

Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, known professionally as Vanessa-Mae, is a British violinist. Her music style is self-described as "violin techno-acoustic fusion", as several of her albums prominently feature the techno style with the classical style.

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