- Nov 07, 2020
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- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism of Webern - and all in 17 minutes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress me up, and I just tolerated it. It's my fault. But I shouldn't have done it. They literally brought down costumes, candles, and icons! It was unbelievable stupidity.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was having these terrible back pains, and then one day in Switzerland, things got very bad. My wife Maryanna called the hotel doctor, but I don't remember any of this, I was out of it. I had an operation, and I was nearly lost.
- Great Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I have a hit, I buy a Rolls.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
The path I follow is still an Orthodox path. You have to follow a path; otherwise, it becomes a little bit new-age, a bit of this, a bit of that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can see that through them came Wagner and Mahler and Schoenberg and Berg. And then came Tracey Emin. And I can see it all as one downward path.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly... There were two women, I won't name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My way towards God has been to write music.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there will always be a possibility that God doesn't exist because He is infinitude and into that infinitude must come that possibility.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020