We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

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.

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

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 want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

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.