The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.
As an artist suffering from insomnia and working from my apartment, I had an artistic freedom to explore and create awesome stuff. I wore a robe and slippers as my work dress code. These are the days...
In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart.
For me, a paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.
There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.
(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser)At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked me if what he had been told was true: that Boulez no longer believe...
In many times, after creating a piece of work I want to stand up and applaud.
The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
I'll admit that writing doesn't always come, but I'm totally against walking around looking at the sky when you're experiencing a block, waiting for inspiration to strike you. Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-K...
I am but an architectural composer.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.