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 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 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.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

If you can imagine a thing, then it has already existed, somewhere, somewhen, somehow.

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

You too must seek the sun.

Jumping jacks are easier to do than crawling jacks.

Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

I think we can take back Mosul, and then we can move on into Syria and take back Raqqa.

Just remember if we get caught, you're deaf and I don't speak English.

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves