I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

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

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.

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.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

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.