Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

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

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

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This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

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

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

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Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

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

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

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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.

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