[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

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

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.

...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.

To have an encounter with God is to feel the ache of his loving heart for the redemptions of the earth

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

Love leaves a memory nobody can take away from you.

Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.