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The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.
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Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.
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A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
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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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In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
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Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.
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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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You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.
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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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