It Is Obvious That Anything

To Me, Mozart Is Our Shakespeare, The One Who Wrote The Most Dramatic, Psychologically Most Baffling Music. He Combined Ideas That No One Else Would Have Thought Of Putting Together.

Boulez's Only Concern Is With Power. He Lost The Leadership Of The Avant-guard More Than Ten Years Ago To Stockhausen. Now Others Have Moved In. With The Need For Power, Where Was He To Go? So He Chose To Be A Conductor. He Is A Wonderful Musician, A Wonderful Intelligence. It's A Pity There Is No Humanity There. Does He Have Sex? I Think Not. When Men Have No Sex, They Go After Power In This Big, Obsessive Way.

I Strongly Suggest That We Play Down Basics Like Who Influenced Whom, And Instead Study The Way The Influence Is Transformed, In Other Words: How The Artist Made It His Own.

Most Artists Have Experienced The Creative Block. We Get Stuck In Our Work. We Beat Our Head Against The Wall: Nothing. Sometimes, It Is Because We Are Trying Something At The Wrong Time.

Truth Is A Big Concept.