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Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.

As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

I don't really call myself a composer.

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.