Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.

I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized I was starved for a hat. I kept it warm by putting it on my head. I made plans to wear it especially when I was going to do any thinking. Somewhere in Virginia, I lost my hat.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.