I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

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

To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?

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

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

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

No one has the Houdini school of composition.