College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

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.

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

When we separate music from life we get is art.

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

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.