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

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

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.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

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