What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap