Wherever We Are, What We Hear Is

Value Judgments Are Destructive To Our Proper Business, Which Is Curiosity And Awareness.

A Mind That Is Interested In Changing...is Interested Precisely In The Things That Are At Extremes. I'm Certainly Like That. Unless We Go To Extremes, We Won't Get Anywhere.

One Need Not Fear For The Future Of Music.

I Was Shocked At College To See One Hundred Of My Classmates In The Library All Reading Copies Of The Same Book. Instead Of Doing As They Did, I Went Into The Stacks And Read The First Book Written By An Author Whose Name Began With Z. I Received The Highest Grade In The Class. That Convinced Me That The Institution Was Not Being Run Correctly. I Left.

I Imagine That As Contemporary Music Goes On Changing In The Way That I'm Changing It What Will Be Done Is To More And More Completely Liberate Sounds From Abstract Ideas About Them And More And More Exactly To Let Them Be Physically Uniquely Themselves. This Means For Me: Knowing More And More Not What I Think A Sound Is But What It Actually Is In All Of Its Acoustical Details And Then Letting This Sound Exist, Itself, Changing In A Changing Sonorous Environment.