I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
“I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.”
“A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.”