The composer makes plans, music laughs.

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

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

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

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

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.