It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement