I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.

All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.