I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
I'll refer to my music in color, like 'This song needs to be bright red.'
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.
Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.
