In the dark, all cats are black.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

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.

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.

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

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