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

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.

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.

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

Adversity precedes spiritual rebirth.

Your defeat begins of the exact spot, which you had felt secure.

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see like a rainbow or feel like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

Our relationship with God will never be right as long as our relationship with others is wrong.

More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.

I have so much respect for people that can do it [tredmill running], I wish I could because it looks really cool and really fun.

Music is, I think, the best way to... not forget, but to just escape for a moment.

I sometimes wonder what this person or that person might be like in bed.