Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I heard yesterday, somebody came and said ' I saw you concert' Can we change the usage of, of this phrase please? And I hope that some of the people in our concert tonight will listen and even hear what we are doing!

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.