People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

Craft is part of the creative process.

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.