It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

And now the bride begins to move. Little mechanical doll, clinging to her husband’s arm, climbing into the carriage. Her white silk stocking, her elegant shoe.

The irony is that there is nothing purer than sorrow.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.

Every day you learn something new.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.

There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.

You still haven’t eaten your muffin. (Sunshine) ‘Yeah, right. He still hadn’t eaten his boots either, and he’d rather feast on one of them than that thing in her hand.’ (Talon)