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?
The composer makes plans, music laughs.
After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.
At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.
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