It's horrifying how classical music is played in this century. We're playing 200-year-old music. In Beethoven's day, they didn't play 200-year-old music. I mean come on. We've heard him 300,000 times. Yes, he's great. The guy's a genius. But that should be the odd piece on the program.

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In a perfect world, we'd be doing a Stones concert with tons of smoke. Yeah. But typically it's just us and a few music stands and a wire or two for our instruments. It's not about having a big sound or knocking people out of the room. It's more about bringing it to your face.

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