Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in integrating itself into various layers of our culture.