Great Music Does Not Just Make Me

Truth Is A Big Concept.

It Is Obvious That Anything A Scientist Discovers Or Invents Is Based On Previous Discoveries And Inventions. The Same Applies To The Arts.

My Students Frequently Ask What Their Next Project Should Be. My Advice: Immerse Yourself In The Music You Love And You Will Find What You Want To Do; You Will Discover Your Next Project.

Mozart Wrote So Many Works In His Thirty-five Years That It Would Take A Lifetime Just To Write Out The Notes. We Literally Do Not Know How He Did It.

Boulez's Only Concern Is With Power. He Lost The Leadership Of The Avant-guard More Than Ten Years Ago To Stockhausen. Now Others Have Moved In. With The Need For Power, Where Was He To Go? So He Chose To Be A Conductor. He Is A Wonderful Musician, A Wonderful Intelligence. It's A Pity There Is No Humanity There. Does He Have Sex? I Think Not. When Men Have No Sex, They Go After Power In This Big, Obsessive Way.