[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

Even though the darkness may come, Our love will always shine bright, Not only us, But also to show others the way.

Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla, " said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might.

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.

You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary.

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time...

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.