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

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.

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

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.

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.

The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.

It still feels weird to spend money on Christmas trees. Back when Mom was alive, we’d go out “tree hunting.” That’s what she called it, anyway. I think other people might use the word “trespassing.

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.

At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.