I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony which would have been an extremely sad loss.
My entire learning process is slow because I have no visual memory.
I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems give me work give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
