I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
I didn't have a record player.
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
