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

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

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

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

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others

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