New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.