Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

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

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

I think art can reflect tragedy.

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.

Art is not only about angst.