"My music is an act of praise."

"My whole life has been a flight from the past."

"What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance."

"I am not a theorist. I am a practitioner."

"My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strengt…"