Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

Nature has different times.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

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

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

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

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.