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Music is a performance and needs the audience.
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... →
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
Nature has different times.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
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... →
I think we're all pretty odd.
I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
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