Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Now, women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

[Hillary Clinton] worked a tough negotiation with nations around the world to eliminate the Iranian nuclear weapons program without firing a shot.

Orthodox chanting is non-emotional, it's very monotone.