I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.

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.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.

There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.

People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!

I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

Love is the weapon of the future.