No one has the Houdini school of composition.
If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.
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.
At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.