I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
I begin by considering an effect.
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.