'I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.' Quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812

'For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it…

'If the listener does eventually come to the point where he makes the ultimate performance by splicing tapes from other musicians' recordings, he will eventual…

'I object to background music no matter how good it is. Composers want people to listen to their music, they don't want them doing something else while their m…

Music isn't enough. Performers aren't enough. There must be someone that loves music as much as life. For you, and remember this always, those of us with somet…

'The merging of different motif areas in her drawings and the transformation of spacial relationships into flat correspondences gathers towards a distortion of…

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.