Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard

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

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

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