I Feel Very Free And Very Happy

It Would Be Very Tempting To Say That Why Paint Because We Have Michelangelo, We Have Leonardo [da Vinci], We Have All These Guys. Why Waste Your Time, Because Most Likely You're Not Going To Be On That Level Anyway.

There Is Something Very Special About This Part Of The World [u.s], Which Is The Openness And The Curiosity And The Lack Of Prejudice And The Lack Of Generally Accepted Norms As To What Art Should Be And How An Artist's Career Should Go And All That.

I Think We Still Do Have A Pr Problem In The Sense That These Institutions Portray Themselves Quite Often As A Museum Without The Contemporary Wing. For A Young Cutting-edge Person, Why Would You Get Into That Sort Of Business, Which Is Very Clearly Geared Towards Dead Or Almost Dead People?

Stravinsky Is Masterly: His Harmony Is Conceived So Precisely That It Can Only Be The Way It Is.

We're Dealing With Music That Is Being Played By Traditional Instruments In A Specifically Built Building Called A Concert Hall. But Classical Is Not - The Reference Is Wrong, Because Classical On One Hand Refers To One Period In Musical History, Which Is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, Which Is A Fine Period In Musical History, But It Was A While Ago.on The Other Hand, It Sort Of Alludes To Some Kind Of "class," Which A, Is Not True; B, Is Kind Of Detrimental To The Whole Idea. Because The Point Is That This Music Is Available And It's Actually Relatively Reasonably Priced.