The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
There is nothing like practice.
I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.