I am always at the beginning.
Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.
My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voice - so I do consider it an opera.
My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.
Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.
I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.
Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!
The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.