One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

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

There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.

Music is a means of rapid transportation.

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

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

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.