Paolo Fresu kindly agreed to continue this series of the famous Proust Questionnaires, slightly revisited in the Couleurs Jazz spirit…
A unique way to take the first steps into the world of these remarkable jazz musicians—artists of our time.
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–For you, what is the height of musical misery?
Playing what you do not feel and what you do not see within yourself.
-Where would you most like to live?
In a better world than the one we are currently living in.
-Your ideal of happiness on earth?
Spending one’s time trying not to die. Therefore, surrounding oneself with beauty and trying to create it.
-For which wrong notes do you have the most indulgence?
For those that will eventually lead to harmony.
–Who are the fictional heroes you prefer?
Those who try to win, even if they eventually lose. Romeo and Juliet, Anna Karenina, Don Quixote…
–Who is your favorite classical musician?
Johann-Sebastian Bach.
–Your favorite heroines or divas in real life?
Je ne sais pas. Elles sont tellement nombreuses, celles qui échouent…
–Your héroines in fiction?
Jeanne d’Arc. In Sardinia, the juge Eloenora d’Arborea.
-Your favorite painter?
Caravaggio.
-Your favorite jazz musician?
Louis Armstrong.
-Your favorite quality in a man?
Coherence.
-Your favorite quality in a woman?
Coherence.
-Your favorite virtue?
Coherence.
©Photo Roberto Cifarelli 2021.
–Your fovorite occupation?
Making music. And through it, engaging with different things.
–Who would you have liked to be?
Here, in this time and at this latitude.
-My main character trait?
Stubbornness.
–What do I like most about my friends?
Friendship and transparency in relationships.
-My main fault?
Stubbornness.
-My dream of happiness?
Living in harmony.
-My greatest unhappiness?
The pain of seeing those who are denied the right to seek harmony.
-What I would like to be?
Better not to know. Otherwise, the future would be unbearably dull…
-My favorite color?
Pastel green.
-My favorite flower?
The camelia.
–My favorite bird?
The sparrowhawk.
–My favorite prose writers?
Francesco Petrarca, Dante Alighieri.
-My favorite poets?
Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico García Lorca, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud.
-My heroes in real life?
History creates heroes. Today, heroes are those who fight, those who wish to be.
–My heroes in history?
The partisans who sacrificed themselves for freedom, all over the world.
–My favorite names?
Those of saints who are not celebrated. And first names that work for both men and women: Andrea.
-What I hate the most?
Hatred.
-The reform I admire the most?
Women’s right to vote in Italy in 1945.
–The natural gift I would most like to have?
An extraordinary talent for music and art.
-How would I like to die?
I would say of old age, but perhaps I’d better ask myself that question later.
-My definition of jazz ?
The music of freedom.
-My current state of mind?
Moderately optimistic.
-My motto?
« In caminu s’accontzat barriu » (proverbe sarde). « By moving forward, one finds balance in the burden one carries ».
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–My signature Title?
Metamorfosi
©Photo Cover Roberto Cifarelli – 2015
©Photo Header Francesca Sara – 2021
Propos recueillis par Franck Médioni. 2026
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