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

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

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

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

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

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

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