To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.
I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.
From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the post-literate worldEven more remarkable than the flowering of art itself was the confluence of cultures that produced it: under the rule of Islam, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived and worked together in relative harmony.
A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.
I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.
I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.
My favorite toast is rye toast.
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice, and the last one off.
Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.