I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.

Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

And at points in the movie, John Cena is actually impervious to bullets!

I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.

One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

When I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody.

God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.