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.

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

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

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.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.