Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that.

You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.

It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting on myself, and listening to long tones.

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

I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night.

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