Quoted from a conversation with Victor Schonfield, director of 'Music now' in London, published in Music and Musicians, London, May 1969. [Cues, pp66-68]

[Regarding indeterminacy]'...I think this interest had to do with his interest in painting. He used to put sheets of graph paper on the wall, and work on them …

'...We met in 1950, through John Cage, when I was sixteen and he in his early twenties. We were all doing work that was clearly different, newly different - fr…

My teacher Stefan Wolpe was a Marxist and he felt my music was too esoteric at the time. And he had his studio on a proletarian street, on Fourteenth Street an…

Written in 1987 at the request of Gisela Gronemeyer and Reinhard Oehlschlagel, first published in German in MusikTexte 22, Koln, December 1987. [Cues, pp364-36…

It is impossible to write ancient history because we do not have enough sources and impossible to write modern history because we have too many.

The first part of this statement is quoted without attribution as early as 1897, and is widely attributed to Irving separately as well as in this joined form, …