For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me

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.

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

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.

I am but a pawn on the chessboard of life!

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

Every principle has a promise.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.

A river without banks is a large puddle.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.