Morton Subotnick

I started out on the clarinet.

A woman said, 'Did a monkey write that?'

Pauline helped me push this piano down the stairs and smash it, just to get the parts I wanted.

I was aware the world was about to change radically. Because electronics were going to be cheap.

'Switched on Bach' is Bach on electronic instruments, not a new music that the technology demands!

I'm a painter sculpting sound.

The performance should be in the moment, and should be daring. It should have the drama of being about to fail.

Music doesn't mean anything. It's meaningful, and you draw meaning from it.

I look for music that has that ecstatic moment.