Everything is practice.
I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
The composer. . . joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.
This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of. . . well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it. . . All about him was safe.
We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less.
We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.