We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

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

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.