 I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life. |
| Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. |
| The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. |
| I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. |
| Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. |
| Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. |
| Music is a form of prayer. |
