The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now.

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.

[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning

The world which worships Mother Mary and goddess Durga also has experienced such heinous crimes against her daughters.

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

I love being in America. I used to love traveling and I am glad that I was able to go around the world. I still love to go to Europe, but I always want to come home.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.

Sincerity is technique.