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Explain To Me, Please, Why In Our Literature And Art So Often People Absolutely Incompetent In This Field Have The Final Word.

Baalbek Is So Beautiful. It Is The Heart Of Beauty In The Middle East - I Want To Embrace These People With My Music. I Will Try So Hard For Them. Their President Is A Christian, Their Prime Minister Is A Muslim. Music Is For Everyone.

Now I Want To Use Money In A Good Way. I Make Foundations Back Home In Russia, I Have Sponsored Vaccinations For More Than One Million Children In My Homeland And I Have Founded Scholarships In The Names Of My Great Russian Compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev And Schnittke.

I Would Rather Have Ideas And Some Difficulties Of Technique Than A Perfect Technique And No Ideas.

There Is Too Much Emphasis On Technical Perfection Nowadays, And Not Enough On What Music Is Actually About - Irony, Joy, Human Suffering, Love.