Truth implies meaning.

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

Composing is like making love to the future.

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.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

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