I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country

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.

Life is all we need.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid more necessary.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.

About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

Don’t stay stuck on the people who’ve hurt you. Move on and let your future give you the better that you deserve.