Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

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.

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.

I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.

Plans become Platitudes, if you don't have Passion and Persistence to Execute them!

Don't worry so much about 'not supposed to'.

Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.

Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.