Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

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.

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

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

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

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

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