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

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.

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

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

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.

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