"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."

"That is why I compulsively let myself be carried away by external commitments."

"[Charles Ives] was exploring the 1960s during the heyday of Strauss and Debussy. Polytonality; atonality; tone clusters; perspectivistic effects; chance; statistical composition; permutation; add-a-pa…"

"All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols."

"I know that the public will not understand my music. But I don't care. I write for myself."