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

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ... not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ... except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ... if you're into it.

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

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

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