Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
The composer makes plans, music laughs.
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
We do not hear what we hear. . . , only what we remember.
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.
Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.
The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.
Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.
I am a living witness, that if you are brave enough to dream it, it CAN happen
I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.
People don't really know me at all.