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

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

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

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

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

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

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.

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

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

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

Michael Tippett