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

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?

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

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.