By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

Many people become discouraged by their obstacles because they focus deeply on what they bring instead of the rewards that come with defeating them.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

If I ever saw him again,he was going to get a proper introduction to Tasey.

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.