Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

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I distrust anything that you don't hear.

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

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

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

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In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

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

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

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

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A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

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