You Get Up Early In The Morning

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

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.

It Doesn't Need To Be Imagined, It Needs To Be Written Down.

What Came To Me As A Revelation Was The Use Of Rhythm In Developing An Overall Structure In Music.

I Don't Know That I Make A Big Distinction Between The Big Pieces And The Little Pieces, Because I Don't Experience Them In That Way. I Mean, By The Same Token, You're Out Touring With A Band And Then You're Writing String Quartets, And In A Funny Way, Isn't It All The Same, In A Way? It's All Just Music.