The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

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

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

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

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.

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.