"I received two letters from him. I wrote him October 25 in New York and asked him for word of his arrival plans in Hollywood. I expected a telegram from him announcing the hour of his airplane. On Nov…"

"My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey."

"I am not interested in the future. I am interested in the present."

"I am a man of my time, and I write the music of my time."

"[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…"