Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

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

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

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.

Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.