If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of research? Because we know already so much that there is no one person who can contain all that information.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.