By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.