Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Vanessa Mae

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Chinese musician Vanessa Mae.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Vanessa-Mae also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a Singaporean-born British violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the United Kingdom in 2006. She competed under the name Vanessa Vanakorn for Thailand in alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was initially banned from skiing by the International Ski Federation (FIS) after participating in a qualifying race allegedly organised to enable her to qualify for the Winter Olympics. An appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport led to the ban being nullified, citing lack of evidence for her own wrongdoing or any manipulation. The FIS later issued an apology to her.

Chinese - Musician | Born: October 27, 1978

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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.

Vanessa Mae

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.

Vanessa Mae

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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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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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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Music is about the performance.

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

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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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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

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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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I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

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Music will always be my greatest passion.

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

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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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I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

Vanessa Mae

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

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

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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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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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You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life.

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Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Vanessa Mae

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