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

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

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

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

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

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

The composer makes plans, music laughs.