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

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

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

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

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

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