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 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 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.

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!

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator.

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

Now is that last time you'll see today, so make it memorable.

Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's only a matter of time.

Education is a vacine for violence

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts.