I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...

He hasn't earned your your mercy."Nessy replied, "Mercy isn't earned. It's given.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power.

Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.