I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.

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.

I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life.

When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?

When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.

Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

A lot of police shootings are justified, but many others are not.

I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.

Never have hatred toward any religion.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.