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.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

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.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

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

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.