In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape.

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.

Rachel opened her mouth to respond, but the head cut her off.

I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else.

Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding

Vergleichende Anatomie der Engel. On the comparative anatomy of angels.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

We never considered ourselves part of the goth thing.

I must have been Cinderella. It was nice...I was so happy...I guess it's already midnight.

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.