When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.
I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
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.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.