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I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

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.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

I think we're all pretty odd.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

Nature has different times.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

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.