The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

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

My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap.

Nothing more than nothing can be said.

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.