The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

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.

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

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees 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.