I had a lot of good times. I had a lot of fun. I liked what I was doing, so I just kept doing it. At the Tape Music Center, I was working from midnight to four in the morning. Because then it was quiet, nobody was there, and I could just do my work. I didn't have to fool around.

There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know or don't want to know about it, with a lot of documentation.

[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

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

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.

The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment.

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