The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.
All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.
I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
The thing I miss about performing is being with people.
It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.