Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.