False Notes Can Be Forgiven, False Music

The Essential Conditions Of Everything You Do Must Be Choice, Love, Passion.

The Art Of Music Is So Deep And Profound That To Approach It Very Seriously Only Is Not Enough. One Must Approach Music With A Serious Rigor And, At The Same Time, With A Great, Affectionate Joy.

Great Art Likes Chains. The Greatest Artists Have Created Art Within Bounds. Or Else They Have Created Their Own Chains.

I Adore Tradition. I Cannot Stand Habit. Simply To Repeat Is Nothing, Also To Destroy Is Nothing. Tradition Is Never Interrupted, We Are Always Evolving But Never Interrupted.

It Is One Thing To Be Gifted And Quite Another Thing To Be Worthy Of One's Own Gift.