I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.

Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing.

I don't want to release things too similar to each other. I've been working on selecting something different from my other work.

From deep within, our spirits are calling for a new and greater global wholeness, global healing, and global opportunity -- the voice is ours, the time is now, and the resources are what we have.

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber so long as it receives messages of beauty hope cheer and courage so long are you young.

One of the benefits of success with new songs is that some of the other songs will get a chance to see the light of day whereas they wouldn't have before.

I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.

if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.

I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.

Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.