I don't think about labels at all, I mean like musical labels. I'm not talking about Deutsche Grammophon. I'm talking about Neoclassical or Classical or even Baroque or Impressionism or Jazz or Rock or Pop or whatever – it doesn't mean anything to me - all those stamps. They are completely outside of the music. They are ways for us to categorize and simplify our lives in ways we shouldn't actually simplify our lives because music is much more complex than that.
Saturday, June 27, 2020
[Labels] are ways for us to categorize and simplify our lives in ways we shouldn't actually simplify our lives
--- Víkingur Ólafsson, in an interview for Deutsche Grammophon, on the launch of his Debussy-Rameau albmu, 3 June, 2020
