Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

Art is the product of an imperfect world. In a perfect world, art would not exist.

The warmth of my love will transform winter into spring and adorn you with floral blooms of my heart.

Life's objective is life itself.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

Over the last few years, Greece has been in the world spotlight for all the wrong reasons - because of its economic crisis, and then because of the refugees from Syria.

I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.