Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Nature has different times.

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.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.