I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

I no longer limit myself.

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and the '60s when every child was under the jurisdiction of every single adult on the block.

Actually, I've gotten myself into some difficult places because I thought I could fix somebody.

I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle

I don't talk about money.

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I studied every moment that I wasn't sitting in class. I was very focused on maintaining a solid GPA, so I could go on to law school.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.

You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

Ageing is one of those battles you're not going to win. I'll try to look as good as I can as long as I can. I don't think I'll do cosmetic surgery because I'm a wimp.

I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isnt the work hes supposed to be doing at that moment.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Fishing without a net is merely bathing.