DS: My last question: What is your taste in music?
HD: At the time when I was young I didn't listen to French music. Not at all. Because we were teenagers - and we were idiots. French music is nice when you are older because you can listen to the lyrics. Do you listen to German music now? Maybe when you were young, you might not have heard it.
DS: Not in my youth and not now either.
HD: I liked all the English and American groups and back then was pop/rock. We listened to Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Asia, Supertramp, Jethro Tull, Genesis and of course Pink Floyd, a lot of those pop/rock groups at that time. I only got into jazz later, in the late 90s. But I didn't start with jazz, I started with pop and rock. My parents didn't listen to music, you know, so I didn't have a guide to classical music. My mother liked it very much when I played pop music: I played it very loudly in my bedroom and she could hear what I was listening to in the kitchen. Then I made her some cassette tapes for her car. So she was listening to my music in her car.

We never had that classical music education. Now of course, I know quite a lot of people who like classical music. When they play classical music, I like it, yes, I even love it. But for me it's difficult to pick a record off the shelf and tell you, why I like listening to it. I have no clue about this music. Classical music in particular is very complicated for me because you can't simply choose Mozart or Beethoven: There are so many symphonies and each symphony has been conducted by so many conductors, there are so many versions from so many places. So for me it's a world of its own. But I appreciate it when a friend who is familiar with it, plays vinyl with classical music for me. Not only in classical music, but also in jazz, I have a slight problem: I don't like it very much if only one instrument plays, because I tend to fall asleep, you know. For example the very prestigious Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett: I can't listen to it because I fall asleep in the middle because only the piano is played. I like it, when there is more than one instrument. Even in classical music I sometimes miss the voices. That's why I prefert to listen to operas or operettas because for me they are something more alive than classical instrumental music. They are richer. With instrumental music I miss something.
DS: Thank you very much.
HD: It was a pleasure.