There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.

Each moment presents what happens.

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

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.