But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

One binds the worldly life with bad thoughts

They all memorized a simple phrase, “Be helpful, be useful, be scarce.

You should be aware that anywhere that a ground rod is installed, that there may be AC voltage/current/frequency in the vicinity of it.

Patent Law cannot afford to sit and watch while technology advancement changes its dynamics

If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.