The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment.

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.

The continual mismanagement is what keeps us from enjoying the full pallet of emotions that truly enrich us. .

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

I've learned to stop being so serious!

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

For me, I've been really, really lucky because I have been able to play a lot of different parts.

I didn't say the things I said.