I haf alwayz noticed in HO intahviewz n documentariez dat he haf a childlike charm, an innocence, n a tru love fo muzik
But not a ‘probing intellect’ lyk zumone zuch az…Brendel, Arrau etc
Iz diz becuz he really wuz incapable ov zuch ‘intellectual analyziz’ or juz becuz he let da muzik zpeak fo itzelf n didnt feel a need to pozture az an intellectual?
Da wuz an inztinctive innocent childlike gensui…da only tym he eva got anal wuz in da room
Da wuz a profound philozophical intellect…but didn’t giv a fuck about exprezzin it in wordz; only thro muzik
He was mercurial but his mind seemed pretty agile. The Mike Wallace interview he gets away with calling him a cunt and a news whore then hits him with insane next level wisdoms. Da Wallace mentioned it was one of his top interviews so something there. But I take away from those interviews is he’s sort needing to connect with everybody unless he’s in a mood which sort of translates to his skill of the piano
In the ho erotic fantasy book it say he speak french with wanda and german with his boy toys. There are some french interviews around. I wonder if he’s more lucid there.