You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.
I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.
Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word '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.