The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

Not the builder, but the writer, creates the road to the future.

My membership has given me everything I've ever wanted.

It is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarinism.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

I bought properties inexpensively and made a lot of money. I began to think it was easy.

I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

there are elements of truth in all great fiction