I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music.

My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - The Well and the Gentle or The Wanderer for example.

A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape.

Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.

When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.