Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important.
When we separate music from life we get is art.
One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.