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.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

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

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

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.