If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

People who score zero are not only those who do not participate in the game, but also those who play very well but have no goal in focus!

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

The heart is where is where the action is

You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?

Opposites attract - and then can't stand each other.

Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.

My good intentions are completely lethal.

Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.