We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.