A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?