I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand.

One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.

I'm never happy with anything.

It's crucial that people are on the right measure at the right time.

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

We all have 10, 000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

Failures when are huge, dimish the small gasps of success, but these gasps are enough to bring the successful in you

today's pain is yesterdays latent gain we did not take

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.