New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.

Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

People don't have to put you in a box. You can have the confidence to move across, and combine and learn from each different practice. They inform each other.

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.

My life transformed by making myself a reader.

To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing to keep doing it

#Leadership is not how much you can take away from others, it is about how much you can inspire, teach and build others by example ~bns

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to rationalize their choices.

Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.