No one has the Houdini school of composition.

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.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

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.

We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.

People says it gets easier. People are stupid."-Vlad

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

There's the blazing Russian Caucasus, with an ongoing war all against all, which is not to be neglected.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.