You invent things like algorithms to take care of some of the changes you want to make. The changes aren't detectable. There's all kinds of things happening as I play.

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 Indian temperament is so excitable, you know.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

One should practice much sense, not much learning.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word, the things you see with your inner eye.

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her. 'Finke?' 'Yeah?' 'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build.

because everybody lies. It's part of living in society .

Without a doubt, the prospects (of China-US economic and trade relationship) are bright.