Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

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.

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 feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.

Every time I annoy him he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

Ask anybody, would you want an ex-madman living next door? It’s difficult enough being an ex-convict. It’s double hard for us ‘madmen’. Please believe it.

Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

I think with The Magicians, the Harry Potter and Narnia influences are obviously there.

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Succesful people are all dreamers. A dream becomes an idea and then something concrete. I think it all starts with a dream.

But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.