I distrust anything that you don't hear.

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

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

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.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

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.

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.