It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.

The work is the most important thing.

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.