"Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge."

"I hate the word 'masterpiece.' It's a cliché."

"[Charles Ives] was exploring the 1960s during the heyday of Strauss and Debussy. Polytonality; atonality; tone clusters; perspectivistic effects; chance; statistical composition; permutation; add-a-pa…"

"A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible."

"What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance."