Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

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.

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

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