"The hotel wasn't that empty, however. Soon an old man walked unsteadily out of the nearby lounge and plopped himself into a big easy chair beside the piano. There, he slowly sipped his wine and watched me play. I felt distracted and uneasy, trapped on the bench where at any moment he might request one of his favourite tunes, one I most likely did not know how to play. He said me: Who will play your music if you don't do it yourself?"

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"We did have rehearsal time at the BBC and we did have access to material out of Japan , which hadn't really been accessed at the time by people in the Western world, so literature that was grim, serio…"

"I am appalled by your bad judgment and astounded by your policies. Why are you so intent on giving aman, even to an enemy whom you have tested and found hostile and intransigent? It is not necessary t…"

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