Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

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

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.