Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.
Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.