Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare’s theater.

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

I’ve seldom become nostalgic or settled.

I’m outside the music I’ve made. I have no interest in it.

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.

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

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn’t there in the score.

I think we’re all pretty odd.

I think we're all pretty odd.