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Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it’s also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.

For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep my head sharp, keep everything sharp.

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It’s just beautiful to me.

Vivaldi didn’t write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.

I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand — murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don’t mess with us. We haven’t had our coffee.

Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way … Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me … Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini … all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs.