The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.