Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: "I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.

It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.