The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

Sit and spin 'til you rot on the cosmic utensil.

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.