Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

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

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

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

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

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.