To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.
At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
