 Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. |
| When we separate music from life we get art. |
| We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. |
| We need not destroy the past. It is gone. |
| I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. |
| The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. |
| If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. |
| There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. |
| I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. |
| It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. |
| We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. |
| The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. |
| There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. |
| It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture." |
