I think the worst thing is stereotyping.

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.

Being Uniquely YOU is the New Perfect.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

You know when grandparents get older and they can't do things for themselves anymore? I'm gonna struggle with that. Because I hate depending on people to do anything for me.

Grace is ours. Let's live it! Deny it or debate it and we kill it.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.