The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
Nature has different times.
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
I think we're all pretty odd.
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.