The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you spend in the company of other human beings, you need "x" number of hours alone. Now, what "x" represents I don't really know; it might be two and seven-eighths or seven and two-eighths, but it is a substantial ratio.

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.