One need not fear for the future of music.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

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.

What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

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.