A New Language Requires A New Technique.

What You Hear Depends On How You Focus Your Ear. We're Not Talking About Inventing A New Language, But Rather Inventing New Perceptions Of Existing Languages.

I Consider The First 20 Performances Just Learning The Piece. Think About It This Way: If You Think About A Pianist Who Plays A Schubert Sonata Through His Whole Lifetime - If You Listen To Rubenstein Or Horowitz Playing Their Repertoire Later In Their Life, You Understand The Richness With Which They Play That Music, And How Differently They Must Have Played It When They Were Younger.

Traditions Are Imploding And Exploding Everywhere - Everything Is Coming Together, For Better Or Worse, And We Can No Longer Pretend Were All Living In Different Worlds Because Were On Different Continents.

I Don't Think I'm Capable Of Making Radical Changes, But Over A Period Of Four Or Five Years You Can Perceive Very Big Changes, And They Seem Rather Small At The Time.

I've Been Called A Minimalist Composer For More Than 30 Years, And While I've Never Really Agreed With The Description, I've Gotten Used To It.