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A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

A symphony is no joke.

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

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.

At its best, American music is the soundtrack of our long - and often painful - march toward a more perfect union.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

I'm just a consequence of the great musical momentum and the great changes we are going through in the world.

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.