Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

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.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

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.

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

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

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.