Great Music Does Not Just Make Me

The Creative Act Is Like Writing A Letter. A Letter Is A Project; You Don't Sit Down To Write A Letter Unless You Know What You Want To Say And To Whom You Want To Say It.

Mozart Wrote So Many Works In His Thirty-five Years That It Would Take A Lifetime Just To Write Out The Notes. We Literally Do Not Know How He Did It.

Any Creator Owes A Debt To Past Creation.

Boulez's Only Concern Is With Power. He Lost The Leadership Of The Avant-guard More Than Ten Years Ago To Stockhausen. Now Others Have Moved In. With The Need For Power, Where Was He To Go? So He Chose To Be A Conductor. He Is A Wonderful Musician, A Wonderful Intelligence. It's A Pity There Is No Humanity There. Does He Have Sex? I Think Not. When Men Have No Sex, They Go After Power In This Big, Obsessive Way.

To Understand Mozart's Contradictory Qualities Would Indeed Be To Understand Genius.