It Is Hard To Think Of Another

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 Second Fiddle. I Can Get Plenty Of First Violinists, But To Find Someone Who Can Play The Second Fiddle With Enthusiasm

Any Asshole Can Write A Tone-row. It Takes A Composer To Write A Tune.

You Can Sit There, Tense And Worried, Freezing The Creative Energies, Or You Can Start Writing Something. It Doesn't Matter What. In Five Or Ten Minutes, The Imagination Will Heat, The Tightness Will Fade, And A Certain Spirit And Rhythm Will Take Over.

When I Am With Composers, I Say I Am A Conductor. When I Am With Conductors, I Say I Am A Composer.