Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination.

Nobody has ever been and most certainly, never would be able to cut the wings of beliefs! Instead, they are nurtured for the needed flight that they give to our otherwise inert lives…

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

Everything ends with flowers.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

Any manager can do well in an expanding market.