Truth Is A Big Concept.

The Fact That Stravinsky Used The Classics As A Major Influence Is Obvious. What Is Interesting Is How He Used Them, How He Turned Bach Into Stravinsky.

Why Do We Pigeonhole And Label An Artist? It Is A Sure Way Of Missing The Important, The Contradictory, The Things That Make Him Or Her Unique.

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 Don't Dare Postulate About Science, But I Know That It Takes Both Emotion And Intellect In Order For Art To Happen.

Since Age Seven, I've Been Composing And Have Never Stopped Composing, Yet, The Creative Process Is As Elusive To Me As It Has Ever Been.