The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our world directs how we participate in the world. How we participate in the world shapes the world.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.