Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. |
I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life. |
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. |
Music is a form of prayer. |
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. |
My music has no significant rhythmic construction, but when I write music, I am always very concerned about the concept of time. |
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. |