After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Until I truly loved, I was alone.

Anderson isn't qualified to make Frank Mir a sandwich

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are your boss can provide an aerial view that will make your path more clear.

All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now

Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.

Do not always live in your world; visit the worlds of others too!

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.