[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.