The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

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

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.

The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.

Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

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