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

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

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

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

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

It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.