“I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I’m trying to do that.”— Roscoe Mitchell, furious.com
“And it is not yet enough to have memories. You must be able to forget them when they are many, and you must have the immense patience to wait until they return. For the memories themselves are not important. Only when they have changed into our very blood, into glance and gesture, and are nameless,…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com