I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

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

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.