Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.
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.