This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.