I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Staying humble and being grateful is a perfect combination for longterm leadership

Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.

Your health is not outside of you.

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

It's the Night of the Living Dead. It's scary out here.

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!