I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.

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.

Is there any good works without grace?

You are the keeper of my eternal secrets.

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works or not, I can say I tried my best.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.