The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group.