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

Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.

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

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

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

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