Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.