"At present...I feel that my works require a modified serial technique, but it is a very unorthodox one, and almost ne…"

"I don’t understand any music! I feel it. I want them to feel something! I don’t want them to understand it. If I want…"

"I have one idea about this whole interpretation problem as it relates to orchestral music — too many of our conductor…"

"To me, the wonderful thing about music is a love affair between the performer and the composer, and between the compo…"

"Too much emphasis is placed upon the technical aspect of contemporary music and not enough on its communicative and a…"

"Ninety - nine percent right is still one percent wrong!"

"Rock and roll is written by illiterates and listened to by illiterates. Ironically, we see today a moronic individual…"

"So many superficial aspects of Tár seemed to align with my own personal life. But once I saw it I was no longer conce…"

"There are so many men — actual, documented men — this film could have been based on but, instead, it puts a woman in …"

"[On the slow growth of the number of female conductors] With women, historically, it's been, you know, "You should be…"