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  1. “Well, I think the best for your listeners if they go and check me out on YouTube, Nicholas McCarthy, they'll be able to at least see what we've been talking about today. And I think that's the first thing. It's so visual what I do. So I always encourage people just to go and look because instead of us explaining it, it's going to be so much more fulfilling for your listeners to be able to actually watch and see what I do. But yeah, come and say hello on Twitter, come and say hello on Facebook. I'm En McCarthy piano on Twitter and Facebook. So come and say hi. And yeah, I look forward to hearing this when it goes out and chatting to your lovely listeners.”

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  2. “And I think the people often overlooked that, you know, the amount of gorgeous places I've been in or beautiful hotel rooms and things. And the ones I remember are the ones who have a lovely smelter, have a lovely transforms the environment, doesn't it? I feel. And it's certainly because I work from home a lot, it certainly transforms my working home life in a more positive way. It certainly helps me concentrate or helps me relax. And when I'm practicing in a room, if I'm not at home, I miss it.”

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  3. “And you know, everyone comes into my, they come into my home and they say, what's that smell? It's beautiful. And I love that. What a nice thing for people to be greeted by. I think we're very affected by smells as humans.”

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  4. “If I want to relax, I might put, you know, yelang in or something like that. I'm really almost sudden in the last six months got quite interested in the romatherapy because I'm 100% felt the effects of different aromas and my concentration or my relaxation or whatever. So I would say that and it was only £50 and the oils that I bought with it probably amounted in total to maybe about 80 pounds. So yeah, that is what and I use it every day when I'm here. I love it. It's Neil's Yard, which is a big brand over here of kind of natural organic aromatherapy oils and skincare products and various things like that. Yeah, and I love that. Only because I've seen such a difference. So it's one of those diffuses. It's not like you put the candle in and it's of an electric one which kind of emits steam.”

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  5. “It is actually, this is quite random, but I love it. It's a diffuser for aromatherapy oils. And I have it in my piano's in my lounge and I have this diffuser on and I put different oils in for when I'm practicing I would put geranium in, for instance, which I love and I just find kind of relaxes me but at the same time keeps me perked up enough to be able to work.”

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  6. “There's one called Hillhouse interiors and they design a lot of the lovely show homes over here and it's very similar to my style of my house. So I've designed my whole house almost off the back of their styling of how they've designed their interiors. I think they're wonderful.”

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  7. “And she kind of teaches you how to design and her thought process. And I like that. I like reading about her actual process of it as opposed to someone just telling you, like, this is why I did this and this is why she was actually saying like, you know, if you put this against this, this will really work and this will create some drama and blah, blah, blah. So I like her a lot. And I also like, I mean, it's not so much designs, but there's often design companies which I like a lot, which wouldn't really mean anything to you, but anything to anybody even over here because it's only you don't really use the design companies if you use them. But I know them because I almost take influence from their design style.”

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  8. “Yeah, my favorite design is Kelly Hoppin. She's more well known here, but she does lots of lots of really high-end luxury hotels and yachts and various things. But she also got a really nice books which have done her kind of more normal homes, if you like, not kind of billionaire homes.”

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  9. “I mean, I'm very much interested in something and I do get slightly geeky over things, like interior design, for instance. If I wasn't going to be a pianist and I wasn't going to be a chef, then I'd have probably wanted to go into interior design because I love it. And I love, you know, doing up houses and kind of, you know, I've helped my mum and dad a lot with theirs and I've helped friends and, you know, if anyone, any of my friends are moving into somewhere new, they were like, Nick, will you come and help me with, you know, because I just love it. And I love getting into people's heads to see what their style is and what they want. And I like to put together, you know, obviously if I've got the time, I don't have as much time anymore. But, you know, when I am on time off, I'm always reading material design books or looking for various things that I want to do to my”

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  10. “Relief, I guess it was all of the relief of having done a good 10 days work. I like working and I like it when it goes well as we all do. So it was that. It was the success of everything. It was the team I was with who were just brilliant. They're really great. My manager was with me as well, so it was lovely to travel. And it was just everything as well as the ambience, as well as the head chef cooking for us. You know, the whole thing, the theatre of it, it was just brilliant.”

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  11. “Can't remember, but you should have seen the size of these fillet steaks. Like, I've never seen anything in my life. And it was cooked all in front of it by a private chef in a private dining. Absolutely beautiful. And that was the hands-down best meal I've ever had in my life.”

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  12. “Best meal I had was in Japan, it was the end of my I went out there to promote my album over there, so I was out there for 10 days solid press, you know what it's like when you're doing these promotions of. Or whatever you're having to do, it's hard work. The end of it, they took me out for this big celebratory meal. It wasn't actually called the Wagyu Beef, but basically it was similar, but it was called something else. I can't remember the name of it. But you should have seen.”

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  13. “And like I say, I've got it wrong many times as well. I'm not saying that I've gone through in every decision I've made is right. Of course not. That isn't the case. But at the same time, I think my wrong decisions I've certainly learned from very quickly.”

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  14. “Because it's not hybrid. So I've always kind of listened to people's advice and very promptly ignored it if I was wrong. Likewise, I'm the first to take advice and the first to praise advice if I feel it's suited to me. But a lot of the time, like I said, I feel that people were very quick to try and apply this blueprint to me and I was never going to be, for obvious reasons. The fact I would have one hand isn't a blueprint. There isn't someone you can look at back in history and say, ah, well, he had a very successful career. And he was just like you. It wasn't like that. Most of the people who played my repertoire, and if you looked back from history, having already had some sort of career as a two-handed pianist, I was starting straight away in left-hand repertoire as a one-handed pianist. I'm kind of that first one to kind of have a taft to do that. So how can you apply the same blueprint that you do to a two-handed pianist? How can you apply that? I just don't think it would work. And clearly it hasn't worked because I've done my own thing.”

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  15. “Based only playing concert. She just obviously had that very, very, like we mentioned that word earlier, old school. She had that old school blueprint that I was never going to fit into. Never. I mean, even when I first started doing television, when I was at the Royal College, I was doing these mainstream talk shows, daytime chat shows. No classical pianist was doing those because, you know, they didn't necessarily have the backstory that I had. And the Royal College of Music was saying, well, we don't think it will do you any good to do these chat shows. I said, why? Well, it's not very highbrow, is it? I went, but I don't want to be highbrow. Music is for everyone. Music is a universal language. Why do I have to do these shows where 140,000 viewers or listeners listen to them, as opposed to going on a TV show where 5 million viewers are watching? Why do I have to do that just?”

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  16. “See, it's funny, people don't really give me advice anymore, but when I was first starting out, people, I remember having a meeting with an agent once and she said, this was before I got my management and things and before I'd signed my record deal and thing. But things had happened for me. I'd done quite a lot of stuff by that point. And I remember her saying, yes, well, I think you should go and do your master's degree at nine thousand pounds a year for two years. And then I think you should take another two years out and go and study in Vienna with someone. And I'd been working for probably two years by that stage. And I thought, why am I, you know, why am I going to spend £18,000 minimum on doing a master's degree where I've already got my bachelor degree on something that I already do? I'm playing the piano. I've already got a fan.”

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  17. “LIFZT composer. Very, very famous classical code. So yeah, go and listen to him. I would say pianist wise, I would say YouTube, the concept of the Argentinian concert pianist called Martha Algeridge. She is just superhuman. She's quite elderly now, but she still plays, she's coming to the BBC Proms this year. She has cult status in our world. I mean, she sold out the Royal Albert Hall, which is, what, 6000? You know, she sold that out in a day or two, I think. Obviously, the promise can still go and see her, as I mentioned earlier. But yeah, I would go and I would go on YouTube her because it's almost watching her is just... It's just super human what she can do.”

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  18. “That's part of my thing. I would instantly educate people on listening. I would get them listening to find out what they actually like. And then I'd run with that. I would then say, right, so you like Russian 20th century music. Okay, so let's learn some Prokofiev. Let's look at some Kabilevsky. Let's look at some composers which aren't on the tip of everybody's tongue. But I saw you might love, you know?”

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  19. “There's a lot of stuff in that. I mean, you might not like opera, but you might love piano. You might not love Bach, but you might love Chopin's music. You can't just write, you can't just discount a whole kind of section of our history and of culture just because you've heard a couple of pieces, which yes, you may have found boring, and I'm sure you did. The amount of times I turn on a classical radio station and I turn it off again because I'm bored by it. Because it's not my cup of tea. Some of the stuff they play. You know, it's like with pop music, you don't say, say, for instance, if you didn't like Rihanna, you don't then say, well, I don't like pop music because you might like Adele. But with people, people's mentality with classical music is very different. They feel that they don't like the entire 300 years of music because of they've heard two pieces that they don't like.”

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  20. “First of all I would find out what their musical tastes are. Now there's a misconception with classical music and the amount of times I hear that people say oh no no no I don't like classical music it's boring I'm thinking well classical music is a very big umbrella”

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  21. “I was on the biggest shows promoting, well, not a lot really, because I didn't have anything to promote. And it's kind of, I did everything backwards. So I wasn't, you know, I didn't get picked up by the agent shaper. I didn't get signed straight away. None of that happened. I did everything backwards. So I was already seen as a success, even though the reality wasn't that. You know, yes, I was looked at as a success because I was on all these shows and people were seeing my name a lot. But I didn't have any of the things which kind of went with that. I didn't have the 90 concerts a year. I didn't have the CD which was being sold around the world. And every time I was on a show, it was selling more copies. It wasn't happening. That didn't happen for me. So I've always been, everything's always been a bit topsy-turvy with me.”

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  22. “Was on the cover of a piano magazine over here and I think he must have read it and then got in touch with me about it because this is the thing with me. I mean I've never done, there's usually a blueprint from thinking if you see any success whether it's in pop or classical or whatever you're in, there's usually a blueprint of what happens. In classical most people kind of win a big competition and get signed by an agent and then they start, you know, touring around and then they get signed by a big record label and then obviously the PR from that is amazing and you know then you become a name and then you do another album and blah blah blah. Whereas with me that didn't happen I started getting major, major worldwide and national press before I'd even done anything. You know, I hadn't even, I was playing maybe three or four free concerts a year to a couple of hundred people.”

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  23. “Up and say, Oh, I'll produce you for free. Was like, okay, I'd never recorded apart from myself when I'd done it very, very crudely myself. I'd never had that. So here I was from having two self-produced discs very crudely done to them sat in a concert hall with Andrew Keener, producer at Strawinaire. And I had to, it costs money because I had to pay for the studio. I had to pay for the engineer. I had to pay for various things. And it cost quite a lot of money. But what I got out of that was completely invaluable”

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  24. “He's very famous over here. In 1989, he released the four seasons. Veldi's the four seasons, and he sold pop numbers of them. He really made classical quite cool back then. Even my mum and dad bought this album. And the producer of that, he's a very, very well-known producer called Andrew Keener. He's produced the biggest names in the classical world. And he produced that album, which went on to sell pop figures of this classical album. And Andrew heard of me and I hadn't done a great deal by this stage. I had graduated from the Royal College and I'd played at the Carolina Closing Ceremony and various things, but I hadn't done a lot, a lot. And he contacted me and said, you know, I'd love to produce a demo disc for your free of charge if you'd be interested. And that is like, I don't know who's the best producer and pop. I don't know who it is, but that's like them ringing.”

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  25. “You note him, that isn't cheap to do, that isn't cheap to do. There's a cost to it. It takes people. You can't just do it all on your own. And that does take money to do that. So I would say there's been so many things. I would say maybe. I think I got offered, which were very kind by, do you know the violinist Nigel Kennedy”

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  26. “See, that's difficult because when you're starting out in any creative industry, and especially in music, people forget that a lot of people think, especially in the classical world, that you don't need to be investing in yourself, whereas I completely have when you're creating any brand, you've got to do that. And, you know, the amount of when I was first starting out, the amount of concerts I was doing for free just to build a fan base, just to sell a couple of my self-produced CDs and kind of earn the money off of that, you know, that is investment. You know, me spending £2,000 to make my first CD just so I can sell it. And yes, I made my money back on it. But, you know, I didn't know I was going to make my money back on it. So there's been so many times and things like, you know, video production for YouTube, and especially now there's so much content that people are thirsty for content. If you want to be part of that, you've got to create that content.”

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  27. “Tell you for now, I'm more than happy to do that. I'm more than happy to be involved, but some of my fans were very, very loyal, very, very supportive won't take, you know, they'll find it bizarre. They'll just find it odd and they will comment. Well, I said that and then there was always that slight worry that no one would write into the BBC or no one would tweet into the BBC about how awful that Nicholas McCarthy was presenting this prom when a two-handed pianist was playing in the left-hand concerto. But luckily they got lots of complaints and tweets in about, you know, not necessarily complaints, but just highlighting the fact that, you know, it was probably not the best decision on their part. For me, it was fine. It was kind of hard to swallow at first because I thought, why wasn't it me? But you know what? It was his time. He played it brilliantly and good for him.”

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  28. “I like that, but it's broadcast on radio every single day, every concert's broadcast on radio, and some of them are broadcast on television, which I was picked to do. And one of the problems that I was meant to, which I was asked to present, was a pianist, very, very good pianist, very good French pianist, was playing Revelle's left-hand piano concerto. So when the BBC asked me to, would I be interested in presenting for them? And I said, of course, yes. And here's what you'll be presenting. I said, that's fine. I said, has it not crossed your mind that maybe having Britain's only one-handed conceptionist actually probably the world's only one-handed consequences presenting a prom where a two-handed peanut is playing Revell's left-hand piano concert? So do you think that might give a little bit of backlash? And they think, oh, we didn't really think of that. I said, well,”

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  29. “So it's basically making classical music very accessible. And if you're one of those people who stand in the arena, you're called a prommer. So it's kind of this kind of tradition thing. It goes back years, but it's a really massive, massive cultural thing here because we do get the biggest names and the biggest orchestras every single day from the end of July through to September every single day in the Royal Army Hall. And people queue all the way most of the concerts sell out very, very quickly, but they don't ever sell those promised tickets until the day. And you have to queue up for them. So you're pretty much always guaranteed a ticket if you're willing to be a prommer and pay five.”

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  30. “That's the same here. We have our kind of high school college graduation boards as well with regarding proms. It's an old tradition. It's called, it's basically, it's held in the Royal Albert Hall. It's a big, big festival all through the summer of classical concerts every single day by the biggest name. So the whole world kind of descends on this big festival. It's now obviously covered by the BBC, but it never used to be. It went before the BBC. The word proms refers to promise and it's where you can get five pound tickets on the day for standing in the arena.”

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  31. “So, you've been a very positive person, I try and spin any failures into a problem. I think I wouldn't say this was a failure, but this was something that was hard to swallow. I, a couple of years ago, because it being a public speaker, I do a lot of speaking for various businesses and things like that. And as you've seen, my TED talk and things, and that's a side of my career which I love motivating people, inspiring people in any way possible. The BBC picked up on the fact that I was a good presenter and they asked me if I'd be interested in presenting for television a couple of the BBC proms, which are obviously a huge deal over here.”

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  32. “So that branding wise and marketing wise and things, you've got to be very careful with that. Now, the press over here, you know, do brand me the one arm pianist, and that's fine. My phrase again, it is what it is. And it's saying what I am. That is what I am. I'm proud of that at the same time. Like I say, I never wanted to be gimmicky. Because if I did want it to be gimmicky, I would have done one of the big TV challenge shows”

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  33. “Well, I think with me, again, it's difficult because most books on branding is talking about a product. And yes, I know I am a product, essentially, but it's different, isn't it? When you're branding a person or an image or, you know, it's kind of different, you have to think. And also with me having one hand, I've instantly differentiated myself anyway in that sense. But I've always found a way of trying, or I hope I've tried to find a way of branding myself without always screaming from the rooftops that I have one arm. You know, I never wanted just to be like, well, yes, you know, and obviously he's very good for having one arm. I want people to say, and luckily they do. Now he's a fantastic pianist. By the way, and isn't it fantastic? He's only got one hand. It's first and foremost I wanted to be recognized for my playing ability, not for the fact that I've come a long way with one arm.”

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  34. “As I said, I love food so much. Two, because I find running the best way to increase stamina and because of my concerts, I have to have a very high stamina because it's hard work playing the piano for 90 minutes with one hand. So I have to kind of do anything in my power to increase that natural stamina. So yeah, my morning routine starts at 9. I go for a run usually, maybe four times, five times a week. And then I would come home, have my shower and then I'm just ready for the day then whether that is a little bit of practice or whoever got my interviews to or catch up on emails or other projects that I'm doing or take my dog for a walk, you know, just things like that really.”

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  35. “Yeah, I'm quite a late, but I usually wake up about 9am. Which I know is quite late for a lot of people. I do practice later at night though. I always feel because I'm Most of my friends had normal jobs, they're just at work and things I still feel like I'm missing out. I don't know why. So I'm not really a one for daytime practice. So I do work slightly later. So I get up about 9am and I usually go to the gym in the morning to do a run. I'm quite a good runner and I enjoy it as well. And I don't ever listen to music when I'm running, which people find very bizarre. You know, people are constantly jogging and running with their headphones in and there's me with nothing in. And that is my time. If you think I'm surrounded by music all the time and I'm surrounded by my own voice and speaking and doing interviews and things. So I like the silence. I like the silence of running without headphones and without me talking about myself, without me doing anything and just to run. And I do a lot of running for two different reasons. One, because”

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  36. “That you know, as I couldn't go out and be, and this one woman was a journalist, she said, you know, I couldn't go out and be the best lawyer in the world. I said, well, you probably could if you actually wanted to and you actually wanted to, if you 100% believed that yourself and you felt that you were going to be that person. But you don't think that and you don't want to be that. So you're not going to be.”

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  37. “That is just my, I just wholeheartedly believe that. And actually, I've had some negativity about that because there's some people I've been interviewed about things. And that's the message I bring to the countries I visit and things because I do 100% think that. And I think why wouldn't I think that? Because a guy who's from a non-classical background, from a non-money background, from a very small village in England who no one's really done a great deal from where I'm from. And then for me to, you know, with one arm as well and the age I started to them become and enter this arena of kind of highbrow classical music and kind of this honing your craft to the highest level. And I think by me doing that, I 100% think that anything is possible. And I just think, of course, with hard work, determination, those things go hand in hand. But there's been people who say to me, yeah, but I don't believe.”

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  38. “Can do about it, and I wish I had that when I was younger because I used to take things in and get so frustrated with things and so upset about things. And now I just don't. I just think, you know, it is what it is. I quite like that phrase that did what it is. It kind of sums everything up, really. Nothing you can do about it.”

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  39. “I usually, well, I always now try and spin it and make it into a positive. So I usually visualize myself. I'm quite a visual person. So say for instance, I mean, you know, I'm quite lucky. It's not as cutthroat as it is in the celebrity world, so the classical world is cutthroat, but it's not as what's a thing as negative where people are just being negative for the sake of being negative like tabloid press, for instance. We don't really get that yet. In regards to kind of negative comments, I don't tend to get them a lot. But things like negative things like if I really, really wanted to play this certain concert or the certain concerto and then someone else has got that. I kind of then use that as a positive. So I would say, you know, it's not my time and it was their time. I'll close my eyes, I'll visualize myself in that situation in two years' time, for instance. And I just think, you know what, whatever will be will be, you know, it is what it is. Nothing.”

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  40. “You won't ever really be able to have a recording career. And I used to be like, oh, well, what a shame because that is what I really want to do. And then obviously I went on and signed my major record deal with Warner Music. So, you know, I'm whispered in my ear being like don't listen to them because you're going to be more well known than they think you're going to be”

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  41. “I would probably say at the age of 20, I forget what age I was when I started the Royal College, but I think if I'm right in saying, I think I had started the Royal College then, what I would say would be don't listen to people. No, don't listen to the negativity. Because I used to do that a lot. And it would influence me. And it's only since I've kind of, I would say it's only really the last four years really that I've consistently not listened to negativity. Obviously, when I've been turned down by that music school and various things, you know, earlier that we spoke about earlier, I obviously wasn't listening to that negativity then. But there's been some other times where I have listened to people. You know, I've had people say to me before, well, you know, well, of course. And there's always a certain type of age, these people, you know, very, you know, older people in the classical industry. Well, it's a shame that you put...”

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  42. “Nina Simone. I read a bug with her, and that was fascinating. So, yeah, I think I like the real life kind of real people saying I'm not really one to go and get lost in a novel. That isn't really me.”

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  43. “He's great because he's had a fascinating life. And, you know, yeah, I've enjoyed, I've read that twice now. So I would say anything about people, Nina Simone, I remember reading her. I'm sorry.”

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  44. “I would say I like books about people. I like books about interesting people. So I like autobiographies, but not like a reality styles autobiography. I like a really interesting person's autobiography.”

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  45. “So, yeah, I would say that's someone I do think of when I think of success in my industry, I would say Langlang, the Chinese concept pianist Yeah, he's kind of bagged the whole brand endorsement thing and everything which kind of one day I hope to do he's done that and definitely whether you like his playing or not you can't deny that he is certainly a phenomenon in our industry”

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  46. “I would say successful, I would say Bethany Frankel. Fan of hers, I love the kind of rags to richest thing and the fact of what she did and the brand she created. And it's kind of, I know I'm not in a liquor brand, but again, I'm trying to create my own brand as me, you know, and it's hard. You know, people don't teach you when you're when I'm at the Royal College of Music, for instance. They don't teach you how to create a brand, create your own brand as an artist. You don't get taught any of that. You've got to do it yourself or learn how to do it. And similar to how she did. Unfortunately, I don't think I can sell myself for $150 million or however much she sold her company for.”

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  47. “People come up to me and ask me to sign the backs of their iPhones, like their actual metal iPhones on the back. I feel like, oh no, I don't want to ruin it for you. When that doesn't happen here, so yeah, it's so funny. It's different. It's very different. And it's all wonderful. And especially when you go back to places, you know what to expect as well. You know that, you know, what certain countries are like with their appreciation of you.”

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  48. “Yeah, I mean, the difference with your previous podcast guest, it's huge. Us Brits tend to be quite stayed. That doesn't surprise anybody, really. We tend to just applause and be quite reserved. Whereas when I'm in Malta or Italy and places like that, they're very vocal, bravo, bravo, bravizimo and, you know, the shout in which I love. You know, it's great. I love that. They're very vocal if they've enjoyed something. When I've played in the States, I've only actually played in the States a couple of times now. And I've always been very well welcome. They're lovely. And I think you guys kind of get my story, whereas a lot of places like France, for instance, they're not really interested in the story that goes with me. They just want to hear the music. So, you know, it's definitely, I mean, Japan and South Korea, their response is great. And they have a really, I mean, you've probably experienced it over there, Tim. You know, they have this fandom thing. They love being a fan. When I'm in Japan,”

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  49. “It's amazing. I mean, I love playing in Japan anyway, but especially over here, Japanese food like it is in the States, it's very popular. But when you go to Japan, it's just on a different level. You know, it's completely, as you know, it's just amazing.”

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  50. “Jackie's definitely, which is good for your waistline, unless it's kind of Okanami Yaki kind of things, and then it's just hugely high in carbon sugar and...”

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