Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.

Ingenuousness is skewed by the cracks in the mirrors of the eye caused by the blunders of the insincere

There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.

Kara knew je only recognised t and a on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy pupeeter

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

You can't please everybody, man.

I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

The very best of vineyards is the cellar

I just wanted to do something important.