I distrust anything that you don't hear.

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.

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

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

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

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

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.