"The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another."

"Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others."

"I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones."

"The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture."

"Music breaks my heart constantly."

"To love truly means recognizing that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"The world's a better place since I chose music."

"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."