My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.
The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.
My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.
The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.
Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.
I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.