I Think A Composer Is Always Interested

I Know Already The Music I Will Write. But The Words? I Have Not Yet Decided.

I Write Bars, For The Musicians, Because They Have To Be Together.

I Was Fifteen Years Old, And I Hardly Knew How To Play A Simple Bach Prelude On The Piano When I Began To Compose Music, And At The Most Advanced Level. I Had Never Studied Such Things As Harmony.

But If You Go From Moscow To Budapest You Think You Are In Paris.

Once, In London, The Bbc Asked Me What Was My Favorite English Book. I Said Alice In Wonderland