We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.
I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?
Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.
The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult. . . the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.
I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.
Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you
I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators. . . All disciplines can be narrow.
The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.
We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.