It Doesn't Need To Be

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.

There's Almost No Content In Terms Of Language At All. I Don't Like Using Language To Convey Meaning. I'd Rather Use Images And Music.

I Don't Know That I Make A Big Distinction Between The Big Pieces And The Little Pieces, Because I Don't Experience Them In That Way. I Mean, By The Same Token, You're Out Touring With A Band And Then You're Writing String Quartets, And In A Funny Way, Isn't It All The Same, In A Way? It's All Just Music.

Satyagraha Is An Opera Which I Wrote For The Netherlands Opera, So It Uses An Orchestra Of Around Fifty, A Chorus Of Forty, And There Are About Seven Soloists. The Opera ... Satyagraha Means Truthful, So It Was A Name [mahatma] Gandhi Used To Describe His Civil Disobedience Movement.

I'd Say The Differences Are More Interesting Than The Similarities At This Point. Certainly No One Would Ever Mistake My Music For Steve's [ Reich].