Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not 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.

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.

Your mind is greater than your problems, your heart is greater than your troubles, your soul is greater than your temptations, and your God is greater than your obstacles.

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.

When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

I was one of several songwriters I think interviewed [for Moana]. I'm a huge fan of Disney animated movies, and I've always wanted to write an animated score since I was a little kid.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.