The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.

Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

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

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.