Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

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.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.