I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm a composer, man.
In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.
I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!
I consider myself a composer.
I don't really call myself a composer.
I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.
I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.