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Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.