What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.

Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.

No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.

They shot me. (Talon) No, bud. They turned you into Swiss cheese. (Nick)