Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

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

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

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

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

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.