Traditions Are Imploding And Exploding Everywhere -

I, As A Young Guy Getting Out Of Music School, I Didn't Like The Prospect Of Spending My Life Writing Music For About 200 People.

But The Difference Between The Little Pieces And The Big Pieces - I'm Not Actually Sure Which Are The Little Pieces. With Some Of The Big Pieces, It's A Lot Of Musical Running Around, Whereas The Little Pieces, You Can Say Everything You Want To Say.

You Get Up Early In The Morning And You Work All Day. That’s The Only Secret.

I'd Say The Differences Are More Interesting Than The Similarities At This Point. Certainly No One Would Ever Mistake My Music For Steve's [ Reich].

The Generation Of Composers That Are Just Preceded Me, People Like [karlheinz] Stockhausen, [pierre] Boulez, And, Well, [john] Cage For That Matter,[morton] Feldman ... That Was A Kind Of Experimental Music That Was Very Isolated. It Had No Real Public.