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By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.

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I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

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No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

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Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether.

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

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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.

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I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

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Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: December 2nd, 1892

Died: February 24th, 2002

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