All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.

One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me.

There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very quick interactive music.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.