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.

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.

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

Sometimes being poor means having to choose between your principles and your survival.

It doesn’t matter, ” said Adrian, smiling. He rested a hand on my shoulder. “Some things are worth the trouble.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true.

No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.

Oh! how many times we die before death!

Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.

I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.