My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.

It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.

Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.

I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we make each day new as players, as people.

What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.

Resonance is a physical process through which similarities are highlighted.

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"

To interact means being among others, and taking others into account in a way, to act.

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.

I have come to the conclusion that there has never been an honest investigation by any authoritative body in the history of the world.

School's-out-for-summer!!

Luck is manufactured in the factory of GOD only. So no reason for believing only GOD and not LUCK.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.

Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

Means are ends in the making

I love a happy ending. They are so rare.

During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.