All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, ‘In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.’ I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony. He then said that I would always encounter an obstacle, that it would be as though I came to a wall through which I could not pass. I said, ‘In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.’

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.