Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country

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

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me

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