Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

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

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.

If you love someone and they vanish, you are left nodding like a zombie and throwing teacups at a wall.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, "Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world."

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!

If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.