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We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation. ”
Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another. ”
Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don't have to work that hard because it comes so naturally. ”
Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously. ”
My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father. ”
My life is so full of sacrifices. ”
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians. ”
I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life. ”
The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable. ”
I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art. ”