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

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

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

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

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

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.