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

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

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.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

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?

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