Culture Opens Our Hearts To

After Reaching 50, I Began To Wonder What The Root Of Life Is.

Music Has Always Been Transnational; People Pick Up Whatever Interests Them, And Certainly A Lot Of Classical Music Has Absorbed Influences From All Over The World.

I Think That Peace Is, In Many Ways, A Precondition Of Joy.

Nobody Else Can Make The Sound You Make.

The Tradition Of Classical Music And The Opera Is Such That It Used To Be The Place Where Social Intercourse Could Take Place Between All Parts Of Society: Politicians, Industrialists, Artists, Citizens, Etc. That Tradition, I Think, Still Exists, But It's Much, Much More Diluted.