Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.