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My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.