How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.
I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage. '
I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.
I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.
Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.