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

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

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

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

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

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