Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.