So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.

My Life is boring without God

We can allow our ego to react and sabotage or we can let our spirit run free in love. We are always in control of our actions.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

Germany has acted effectively during the euro crisis. It needs to build on this to engage in other spheres too.

Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.

I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is.

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.