I Don't Use Old Music.

I Lived Under The Nazis And Under The Communists.

I Listen To All Kinds Of Music - New Music, Old Music, Music Of My Colleagues, Everything.

Then, After The War It Was Impossible To Travel, After So Many Years Of Hitler And Stalin.

I Was Fifteen Years Old, And I Hardly Knew How To Play A Simple Bach Prelude On The Piano When I Began To Compose Music, And At The Most Advanced Level. I Had Never Studied Such Things As Harmony.

I Like To Stay Home And Listen To Recordings.