It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.