The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in the sciences.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

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

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

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.

Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.