Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever voluntary movement they have, even the slightest .

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.

Your life is always a perfect reflection of your state of heart and mind, and of your truest identity.

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.

What are you doing right now that requires faith?

When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair.

When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.

It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice would have more to lose if we got back together.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.

If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.