"What is very strange musically is that the only music that can really inspire me now is my own music — and I think th…"

"I love Germany as much as I hate France."

"Already in October at the same time as my course with Stockhausen I will have to learn 2 African languages. Probably …"

"I've always been passionate, crazy about music, and believe me it's wonderful."

"As in the story where the master asks the pupil what he has learned and the pupil repeats shyly by heart what the mas…"

"[It is] a work for Javanese and Balinese gongs and other types of metal that I brought back with me from my journey, …"

"As I told you on the phone, I'm not going to leave Paris, I'm staying home (I even made my first spaghetti sauce), I …"

"It will be rather sad music. It will also probably be one of my most beautiful and deepest works. I've been thinking …"

"Mahler is perhaps the musician with whom I have the most in common, an exaggerated sensibility, Schmalz and at the sa…"

"In all human undertakings the period of growth is followed by one of decay unless a new spirit pours fresh life into …"