If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing
There is a craft and a power in listening.
The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.
Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.
[Bach is the] reason I became a musician