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

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

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

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

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

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

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.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Creativity is a state of mind, a way of being, and it comes from a sacred place within.

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.

I don't want followers.