If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

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

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.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

All music has to speak in some form or other.