If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.

Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

We only hear what we listen for.