I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

I don't think of my music as being about something.

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.

It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

Wow!” gasped Julia. They saw 20 or more young children of every sort lyingon the cold, bare ground.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Girls, you listen to every word your mamma is saying, cause the only way you'll ever get a better piece of chicken is if you're a rooster.

The truth of life is that almost all that we achieve through pain is the best medicine for us, as most drugs are bitter

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.

If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.