I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.