I think art can reflect tragedy.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.

Art is not only about angst.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.