My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.
I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
I think we're all pretty odd.
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.