Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.