Any Asshole Can Write A Tone-row. It

Any Great Art Work … Revives And Readapts Time And Space, And The Measure Of Its Success Is The Extent To Which It Makes You An Inhabitant Of That World - The Extent To Which It Invites You In And Lets You Breathe Its Strange, Special Air.

This Must Be The Mission Of Every Man Of Goodwill: To Insist, Unflaggingly, At Risk Of Becoming A Repetitive Bore, But To Insist On The Achievement Of A World In Which The Mind Will Have Triumphed Over Violence.

Music, Because Of Its Specific And Far-reaching Metaphorical Powers, Can Name The Unnamable And Communicate The Unknowable.

I Believe In People. I Feel, Love, Need And Respect People Above All Else, Including Natural Scenery, Organized Piety And Nationalistic Superstructures. One Human Figure On The Slope Of A Mountain Can Make The Mountain Disappear For Me, One Person Fighting For Truth Can Disqualify For Me The Entire System Which Had Dispensed It.

The Rhapsody Is Not A Composition At All. It's A String Of Separate Paragraphs Stuck Together - With A Thin Paste Of Flour And Water... I Don't Think There Has Been Such An Inspired Melodist On This Earth Since Tchaikovsky... But If You Want To Speak Of A Composer, That's Another Matter.