What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.