I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It's a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way.

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.