I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

I don't think of my music as being about something.

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.

It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.

Books are sepulchres of thought.

Life is not unfair. Life is what you make of it.

True Yankees are born, not made.

Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.