We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all

No one has the Houdini school of composition.