I'm Interested In What Happens To Music

I Consider The First 20 Performances Just Learning The Piece. Think About It This Way: If You Think About A Pianist Who Plays A Schubert Sonata Through His Whole Lifetime - If You Listen To Rubenstein Or Horowitz Playing Their Repertoire Later In Their Life, You Understand The Richness With Which They Play That Music, And How Differently They Must Have Played It When They Were Younger.

Traditions Are Imploding And Exploding Everywhere - Everything Is Coming Together, For Better Or Worse, And We Can No Longer Pretend Were All Living In Different Worlds Because Were On Different Continents.

The Generation Of Composers That Are Just Preceded Me, People Like [karlheinz] Stockhausen, [pierre] Boulez, And, Well, [john] Cage For That Matter,[morton] Feldman ... That Was A Kind Of Experimental Music That Was Very Isolated. It Had No Real Public.

The Problem With Listening, Of Course, Is That We Don't. There's Too Much Noise Going On In Our Heads, So We Never Hear Anything. The Inner Conversation Simply Never Stops. It Can Be Our Voice Or Whatever Voices We Want To Supply, But It's A Constant Racket. In The Same Way We Don't See, And In The Same Way We Don't Feel, We Don't Touch, We Don't Taste.

I Like The Idea That [mahatma] Gandhi Is Appearing Now In An Opera Hall In All These Different Places, And People Kind Of Think About It Again.