A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

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

Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

We only hear what we listen for.