Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

I felt somewhat like a fire hydrant – with everyone marking their territory around me.

If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing.

Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.

One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

I try not to take myself too seriously.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.

Beautiful thoughts, build a beautiful soul.