Music is for people to hear, I can't think of anything else it could be for. Unless you believe in God, and I don't think God really would be all tha….

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally..

I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript..

I had great difficulties learning to play initially because I could not think rhythmically properly, although it's an even-paced rhythm, I was not ph….

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived next door to me, and I fr….

Anything that we love seems to always come out in some form or another, but once it gets into your brain, these things get processed, and they come o….

I was not happy as a traveller, I did not feel really at home anywhere I went, even in Spain which was the most I felt at home, I still was a foreign….

The one thing I never did, I was never strict in my techniques. I might have pretended in the past at times that I did work serially, or something li….

I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance, an awareness of something more than the day-….

It never occurred to me that there was anything odd about writing my own music, and so I used to just jot down little ditties and things like that. A….

In studying music, you're dealing with a person, not just what comes to you on a piece of paper, and it's important to get hold of what it is that li….

There's only just so much you can do; I prefer to do only a couple of things and go to some depth in them..

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition..