A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

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

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.

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.

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.

Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?