Each moment presents what happens.

A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.

When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic - here on Sixth Avenue, for instance - I don’t have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound... I don’t need sound to talk to me.

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

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.