I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.