Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

Nature has different times.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

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

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

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.