- On political music: My dear, it would be terrible poverty of life if music were political. I cannot imagine it, because what does this mean--'political music?' That is why I ignore questions about political music, because music is music. Painting is painting. I can be involved in some political ideals that would be my personal life.
- On audience: I think about my audience but I am not writing for them. If I were thinking of my audience and one likes this, one likes that, one likes another thing. I would never know what to write. Let every listener choose that which interests them. I have nothing against one person like Mozart or Shostakovich or Leonard Bernstein, but doesn't like Gorecki. That's fine with me. I too like certain things.
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