Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

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

I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!

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

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.

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

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.