Art is whatever you can get away with.

I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.'

We only hear what we listen for.

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

I don't need sound to talk to me.

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.