 Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance. |
| Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. |
| Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you. |
| Nature has different times. |
| Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought. |
| Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme. |
| The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. |
| The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us. |
| I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it. |
| Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. |
| I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being. |
| This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music. |
| Music is a performance and needs the audience. |
| Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. |
| I think we're all pretty odd. |
| The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. |
| When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way. |
| My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical. |
| Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment. |
| I've seldom become nostalgic or settled. |
