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

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.

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

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

Be baptize with the Holy Spirit.

To enjoy and appreciate the beauty of a dazzling spring, I save winter in my warm heart.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Some parents whenever their children have an independent thought they wrap them up in warm ignorance and send them to bed

Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess... If you choose to strike, by all means strike hard.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

Who would have thought when they came to the fight? That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.

The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know some nurture.