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.

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.

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

Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.

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.

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

I distrust anything that you don't hear.