All great art is a form of complaint
Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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.
To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap.
An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.
I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.
Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
My work became an exploration of non-intention.
To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.
Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?
A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.
Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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.
I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.
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