All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

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.

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

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.

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.