In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

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

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

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

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

Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.

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